ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,942, issued on June 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot programming device and robot programming method" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This robot programming device creates an operational program for a robot that moves while pressing a gripped object, which is gripped by the robot, against a fixed object. The robot programming device includes a model arrangement unit which arranges, in a three-dimensional virtual space, a robot model of the robot, a gripped object model of the gripped object, and a fixed object model of the fixed object, a reference line design...