ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,630, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Rebar tying robot" was invented by Kengo Onoda (Anjo, Japan) and Kazuki Oguchi (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rebar tying robot may include a rebar tying unit, a conveying unit configured to convey the rebar tying unit, and a control unit configured to control the conveying unit. The conveying unit may include a longitudinal movement mechanism configured to move the rebar tying robot in a front-rear direction and a first three-dimensional distance sensor configured to output first point cloud data which represents a three-dimensional position of a sub...