US Patent Issued to Kubota on May 12 for "Bending angle determining method and determining device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,386, issued on May 12, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Bending angle determining method and determining device" was invented by Yasushi Idomoto (Amagasaki, Japan) and Kazuma Harada (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Achieved is a determination method which enables accurate determination as to a bending angle. A bending angle determination method includes: an input reception step of receiving, with respect to a joint at which a first pipe and a second pipe are joined together, inputs of respective parameters of a plurality of predetermined positions set in a circumferential direction of the first pipe; and a...