ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,134, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Robot control apparatus, robot control system, and robot control method" was invented by Sho Bunno (Ibaraki, Japan), Masato Mori (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Miyamoto (Kadoma, Japan), Takayuki Ishida (Hirakata, Japan) and Hiroaki Miyamura (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control apparatus includes a controller configured to control a robot. The controller includes an operation control unit and a state estimation unit. The operation control unit is configured to cause the robot to operate along a first operation path. The state estimation unit is c...