ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,781, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot system" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Shigetsugu Tanaka (Akashi, Japan), Masayuki Kamon (Akashi, Japan) and Yoshihiko Maruyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot body configured to perform a work, a robot controlling module configured to control operation of the robot body according to an operator command, a manipulator configured to send the operator command to the robot controlling module according to manipulation by an operator, a motivation information acquiring module configured to acq...