ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,134, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Programming device" was invented by Shoutarou Ogura (Yamanashi, Japan), Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan) and Hiromitsu Takahashi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a programming device capable of reducing the load of an operator that creates a control program including a command corresponding to a function of an imaging device. Provided is a programming device for programming industrial machinery, the programming device including: a command generation unit that acquires information regarding an imaging device connected to a control device...