US Patent Issued to FANUC on Oct. 21 for "Teaching device and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,796, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Teaching device and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program" was invented by Takashi Matsumoto (Yamanashi, Japan) and Gou Inaba (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an manipulation feeling and improve ease of use in a teaching device for industrial machines, including robots and machine tools, in order to accurately designate a manipulation amount without performing manipulation by an erroneous manipulation amount during display of a rotary dial on a touch-panel-equipped dev...