US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 15 for "Control device, control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,274, issued on Sept. 15, 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 by a computer, the control method acquires work information including information on work performed by a robot arm and information on an article as a target of the work; causes the robot arm to perform an operation of lifting up a predetermined unit of articles based on the work information; determines that the...