ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,557, issued on May 27, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Controller for robot and power-outage processing method" was invented by Tetsuro Matsudaira (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yoshikiyo Tanabe (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a robot includes: a voltage detecting portion that detects a power-source voltage input from a power source; and a determining portion that determines, on the basis of the power-source voltage detected by the voltage detecting portion, whether to perform power-outage processing that guarantees the operation, wherein the determining portion includes a first timer that st...