ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,383, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"3D printer using robot and control apparatus for robot" was invented by Yuuki Kondou (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a 3D printer using a robot and enabling molding of an article with high strength and high accuracy; and a control apparatus for said robot. A robot used as this 3D printer has: an input-side encoder that acquires information regarding the angle of an input axis of a joint of the robot operated on the basis of a control command; and an output-side encoder that acquires information regarding the angle of an output axis. ...