ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,057, issued on May 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control system" was invented by Takashi Matsumoto (Yamanashi, Japan) and Gou Inaba (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes: a manual operating device that generates an operation signal in accordance with rotation of a dial by an operator; a machine tool controller and a robot controller that are connected in such a manner as to be communicable with each other and that control a machine tool and a robot, respectively, based on the operation signal; and an operational-target setting unit that sets an operational target for the man...