ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,274, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot system, control device, diagnosis method, and diagnosis program" was invented by Kyouhei Kokubo (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system including: a robot with one or more movable elements respectively rotatable about one or more rotation axes; a control device that controls the robot; and a visual sensor attached to any of the movable elements of the robot, where the control device uses any of the movable elements of the robot as a subject element, compares a position of a predetermined target in a first image at an arbitrary fir...