US Patent Issued to OMRON on Oct. 6 for "Method and apparatuses for path planning for a robotic manipulator" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,424, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method and apparatuses for path planning for a robotic manipulator" was invented by Siddharth Sanan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Soma Boubou (Pleasanton, Calif.), Andres Rodriguez Campo (Dublin, Calif.), Gaurav Misra (Milpitas, Calif.), David von Edge (San Francisco), Kazuma Tabuchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Sean Bailey (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed methods and apparatuses provide an advantageous approach to path planning for moving a robotic manipulator from a starting pose to a goal pose, in cases where the goal pose is within unseen space or advan...