ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,196, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Workpiece picking method and workpiece picking system" was invented by Takeshi Nishimoto (Fuso-cho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece picking method for picking up workpieces supplied in a randomly placed state onto a supply stage larger than an imaging range corresponding to an angle of view of an imaging section, the workpiece picking method includes: (a) a step of performing picking processing of selecting a workpiece, and causing the picking section to pick up the workpiece; (b) a step of acquiring a remaining number of the workpieces remaining af...