ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,967, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Simulation device" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a simulation device capable of efficiently adjusting the position of a visual sensor model. The simulation device includes: a virtual space generation unit that generates a virtual space three-dimensionally representing a work space; a measurement target model arrangement unit that arranges in the virtual space a measurement target model three-dimensionally representing a measurement target; a measurement portion specification unit that specifies a m...