US Patent Issued to OMRON on Sept. 1 for "Control device, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,291, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Control device, control method, and control program" was invented by Masashi Hamaya (Tokyo), Atsushi Hashimoto (Tokyo), Kazutoshi Tanaka (Tokyo) and Reina Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a control device connected to a robot including an end effector acting on a target object, a drive source for driving the end effector or a robot body, and a tactile sensor provided to the end effector, and that controls the drive source to perform an action on the target object."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2023, under Applicatio...