US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 17 for "Human skill based path generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,516, issued on March 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Human skill based path generation" was invented by Kaimeng Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Yu Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for robot path planning using skills extracted from human-taught motion programs applied to a new obstacle environment. A three-dimensional convolutional neural network is used to extract features characterizing an obstacle environment, where the feature vector representation of the obstacles overcomes problems encountered when using point cloud obstacle data. The obstacle fe...