US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 10 for "Collaborative-robot risk assessment guidance device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,124, issued on June 10, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Collaborative-robot risk assessment guidance device and method" was invented by Naoki Touma (Yamanashi, Japan) and Kazutaka Nakayama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative-robot risk assessment guidance device, including: an input device that receives inputs; a storage device; a display device; and at least one processing device, where the processing device prompts a user to input basic information including conditions for collaborating with people, prompts the user to select at least one candidate information item for hazard sources st...