ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,173, issued on April 8, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot system" was invented by Junya Terasaka (Yamanashi, Japan) and Masao Motohashi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system including a plurality of robots, controllers that respectively control the robots, hands attached to wrist ends of the robots and configured to hold and release a workpiece, and a sensor configured to detect that the workpiece is being held by the hands of the robots. The controllers are interconnected and configured to exchange signals so that the robots operate in coordination in response to an operation command th...