ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,043, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"State monitoring device and state monitoring method for industrial machinery" was invented by Naruki Shinohara (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot state monitoring device 2 comprises: a camera which captures an image of a robot 3 under the control of a controller; a moving image generation unit which associates video data of the robot 3 acquired by the camera with input/output signals DO[1], AO[1], DI[1], and AI[1] of the controller along a time axis 830, and generates a moving image showing a state change of the robot 3 and the input/output...