ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,065, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Path dataset generation" was invented by Kaimeng Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a dataset of robot motion programs for training a path generation neural network. A large language model is used to configure a task environment and generate code which creates robot simulations. The large language model uses a robot task library and an asset geometry database as inputs. Based on the task and asset inputs and a task instruction, the large language model breaks down the task into steps, ...