ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,942, issued on March 3, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device, robot system, and robot control method" was invented by Yoshihisa Ijiri (Kyoto, Japan), Kazutoshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Masashi Hamaya (Tokyo), Felix Von Drigalski (Tokyo), Yoshiya Shibata (Kyoto, Japan) and Chisato Nakashima (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus of a robot that includes a flexible portion and a locking mechanism for fixing the flexible portion, the control apparatus including: a lock control unit configured to control locking and unlocking of the flexible portion; and an operation control unit configured to cont...