ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,709, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Robot system, processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Masatsugu Ogawa (Tokyo), Hisaya Wakayama (Tokyo), Masumi Ichien (Tokyo), Nobuharu Kami (Tokyo), Tsutomu Maruyama (Tokyo) and Youko Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system is configured to move a target object and configured to acquire a measurement result of the physical quantity by a weighing scale at a predetermined time interval from a start time of a period during which a robot arm is associated with a status that indicates that the robot arm is moving while grasping the target obj...