ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,486, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Program editing device" was invented by Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan) and Shoutarou Ogura (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention makes it possible to create a vision detection program without a sense of incongruity, even for an operator who is used to robot programming but not used to vision detection programming. Provided is a program editing device for editing a motion program for a robot, the program editing device including: a program editing unit which receives common input operations with respect to a first type of icon that...