US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 15 for "Robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,168, issued on July 15, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot" was invented by Toshihiko Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan), Tomoyuki Motokado (Yamanashi, Japan), Kazuhiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuuki Kouda (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot including a forearm, a wrist whose proximal end side is connected to the forearm so as to be rotatable around a first axis and to which a work tool is attached at a distal end side thereof, a flexible conduit arranged along the first axis from the forearm to a distal end of the wrist, the flexible conduit having openings at both ends thereof, and a pull-in co...