US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 17 for "Coordinate-system setting system and coordinate-system setting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,316, issued on June 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Coordinate-system setting system and coordinate-system setting method" was invented by Hiroshi Oowatari (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coordinate-system setting system including: a probe; a 3D-shape measuring device for measuring contact locations of the probe; and a storage device that stores a 3D model of a part to be measured. The 3D model includes information about an origin position of a coordinate system of the part to be measured. The 3D-shape measuring device measures, when the probe is brought into contact with the part to be measure...