ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,549, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot system and robot control method" was invented by Tadashi Shoji (Kobe, Japan) and Toshiyuki Suzuki (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of robots are installed so that they can simultaneously work on a common workpiece. Robot controllers are installed corresponding to the robots respectively. Each of vision sensors can acquire visual information about a measurement target that the workpiece has. The plurality of the robot controllers and the plurality of the vision sensors can all communicate with the visual processing computer commonl...