ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,004, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Master-slave system and controlling method" was invented by Masayuki Kamon (Kobe, Japan), Hiroki Takahashi (Kobe, Japan), Kai Shimizu (Kobe, Japan), Yuki Takayama (Kobe, Japan), Jun Fujimori (Kobe, Japan), Hiroki Kinoshita (Kobe, Japan), Masahiko Akamatsu (Kobe, Japan) and Takanori Kozuki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master-slave system includes a master unit, a slave unit, and a control device. The control device includes first circuitry that determines a first relationship that is a relationship between a slave coordinate system and an o...