ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,391, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Production system" was invented by Wataru Miyazaki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production system includes a conveyance device, a robot, a movement device, a sensor acquiring position information regarding an article conveyed by the conveyance device, a calculation unit calculating a velocity vector for the article conveyed by the conveyance device based on the position information acquired by the sensor, and a control unit that, when the direction of movement of the article conveyed by the conveyance device and the direction of movement of t...