ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,376, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Control method, robot system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Yuki Kiyosawa (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control method includes detecting a current position of a control point of a robot arm, predicting, using position information indicating the current position, a position to which the control point of the robot arm moves after a current time point, and performing, when an entry restriction region is enabled and there is a possibility that the robot arm enters the entry restriction re...