ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,524, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Youko Mori (Tokyo), Tsutomu Maruyama (Tokyo), Tadashi Natsukawa (Tokyo), Masatsugu Ogawa (Tokyo), Masumi Ichien (Tokyo) and Terumasa Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method includes: acquiring article information including a price of an article to be handled by a robot arm; deciding, based on the article information, a handling method of the article to be handled by the robot arm as a handling method in which as the price of the article is higher, damage prevention of the article ...