ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,433, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device and detection system" was invented by Zeyuan Sun (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Yuta Namiki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device including: an image acquisition unit for acquiring, from a visual sensor, a plurality of images obtained by successively imaging a workpiece; and an object-determining unit for determining, on the basis of the plurality of images, the workpiece that is in a stationary state as an object on which work is to be carried out by industrial machinery."
The patent was filed on May 19, 2022, under...