US Patent Issued to FANUC AMERICA on Nov. 4 for "Collaborative safety awareness for robotic applications enabled by augmented reality and other location-based technologies" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,124, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FANUC AMERICA Corp. (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

"Collaborative safety awareness for robotic applications enabled by augmented reality and other location-based technologies" was invented by Derek Jung (Clinton Township, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative safety awareness system for robotic applications enabled by augmented reality (AR). One or more robots in a work cell are in communication with an application running on an AR device worn or held by an operator in the work cell. The AR device may be a headset apparatus, or a tablet or teach pendant device. A dynamic safety zone is...