US Patent Issued to MAYEKAWA on March 3 for "Tool checking device, storage device storing tool checking program, and tool checking method for robot arm" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,966, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAYEKAWA MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tool checking device, storage device storing tool checking program, and tool checking method for robot arm" was invented by Junta Hirayama (Tokyo), Masaru Tokumoto (Tokyo), Tomoki Yamashita (Tokyo) and Kenichiro Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool checking device for a robot arm includes: a tool movement control unit configured to control the robot arm so as to move a tool attached to the robot arm to a defined position; an imaging control unit configured to control an imaging device so as to capture an image of the tool moved to the defined posi...