ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,839, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot system, method, and computer program for performing scraping process" was invented by Tadanori Suzuki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for a technology for executing a high quality scraping process with a robot. A robot system includes a robot configured to move a scraper for scraping a surface of a workpiece and a control device configured to control the robot. The control device is configured to abut the scraper against the surface in a trajectory, which is inclined so as to form an acute angle with respect to the surface, b...