ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,134, issued on June 10, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control device and robot system" was invented by Tomoki Katou (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot control device that makes it possible to perform high-level operations on a robot from an external device. The robot control device for controlling a robot, includes: a digital input/output interface for transmitting/receiving digital data to/from an external device; a program generation unit which generates an action command for the robot in accordance with command identification data included in digital data inputted via the ...