ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,480, issued on June 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control system" was invented by Akihiro Yanagita (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot control system that can appropriately perform addition and deletion of new functions. This robot control system is provided with: a robot control device; and a teaching manipulation panel. The robot control device is provided with: a storage unit; a function addition unit; a switching unit that is provided on the teaching manipulation panel and that is for setting the operation of the function addition unit to be enabled or disabled; and a ...