ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,615, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot system, robot control device, control method, and computer program" was invented by Kazuki Wakabayashi (Yamanashi, Japan), Toshihiro Nishimura (Yamanashi, Japan), Shigeo Yoshida (Yamanashi, Japan) and Gou Inaba (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a robot system, a robot control device, a control method, and a program which make it possible to more simply teach a robot action. The robot system comprises: a feature point teaching unit which causes a storage unit to store the position of a feature point that has been taught using lea...