ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,721, issued on March 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a robot controller that does not require manual correction when an applying process operation is interrupted due to occurrence of an error, and that enables automatic avoidance of occurrence of an interrupted part (gap) of the applying process and occurrence of excessive processing upon resuming the applying process operation. When an applying operation is interrupted, if the operation has stopped after further ...