US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on June 23 for "Robot control device, robot, and method of controlling the robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,332, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot control device, robot, and method of controlling the robot" was invented by Masaya Yoshida (Kobe, Japan), Shinya Kitano (Kobe, Japan), Atsushi Nakaya (Kobe, Japan) and Junichi Sugahara (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device configured to control operation of a robot configured to transfer a substrate while holding the substrate is provided. The substrate becomes in a first state where an end effector holds the substrate and the substrate is not placed at an installation position, when the end effector positions at a first t...