ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,036, issued on April 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masatsugu Ogawa (Tokyo), Masumi Ichien (Tokyo) and Hisaya Wakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device 1X mainly includes an operation planning means 15X and a determination means 16X. The operation planning means 15X determines an operation plan of a robot regarding a work of sorting plural items into plural sorting containers. The determination means 16X determines whether or not the sorting containers are replenished. Then, the operation planning means 15X updates the operation plan b...