US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 21 for "Object holding method and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,827, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Object holding method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Tadaaki Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan) and Masanori Yoshihira (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object holding method includes: a step of determining a center of a first object assumed to be held by an end effector for a plurality of holding postures which the end effector is able to take; a step of measuring a shape of a second object based on an image in which the second object is captured from a viewpoint; a step of selecting a holding posture when the end effector h...