ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,376, issued on June 9, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Workpiece detection system" was invented by Jun Wada (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece detection system capable of detecting a workpiece accurately and rapidly comprises: a three-dimensional sensor that measures a three-dimensional shape of an object in a field of view; and an information processing device that uses a visually recognizable shape in each point of view of a three-dimensional model as a search target shape, and, when a matching partial shape that matches the search target shape is found from the three-dimensional shape meas...