ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,518, issued on March 17, was assigned to JOHNAN Corp. (Uji, Japan).

"Robot control system, control device, and robot control method" was invented by Kozo Moriyama (Kyoto, Japan), Shin Kameyama (Kyoto, Japan), Truong Gia Vu (Kyoto, Japan) and Lucas Brooks (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot control system (1) including a robot (200) and a control device (100). The control device (100): specifies positions of other objects, specifies a second cuboid that encompasses a first cuboid containing the positions of a plurality of vertices of the robot prior to movement and the positions of a plurality of vertices...