ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,063, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control system" was invented by Nao Ooshima (Yamanashi, Japan) and Gou Inaba (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system including a robot controller configured to control a robot, two operation devices configured to manually operate the robot, the first operation device being connected to the robot controller. Each of the operation devices has a request switch configured to switch between a request state in which an operation right for the robot is requested and a non-request state in which the operation right is not requested,...