ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,773, issued on May 26, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Robot and robot system" was invented by Tetsuya Aoki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot has a first pulley that is fixed to a rotation shaft of a motor, a second pulley that is fixed to a spline nut, an intermediate pulley that is supported by a support member and that rotates around a fourth rotation axis with respect to the second arm, a first belt that is wound around the first pulley and the intermediate pulley, and a second belt that is wound around the intermediate pulley and the second pulley, the intermediate pulley has a first intermediat...