ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,283, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot manipulation device and robot" was invented by Kazuhiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan), Tomoyuki Motokado (Yamanashi, Japan) and Toshihiko Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An robot operation device attached to a robot having a long tool fixed to a flange provided at a distal end of the robot, the robot operation device includes a handle having an inner hole through which the tool is inserted, the handle configured to be held by one of hands of an operator in a manner that a longitudinal axis of the tool is enclosed by the one of the ha...