ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,594, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control device, and robot system" was invented by Mikito Hane (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot control device capable of facilitating the work of setting a control center for controlling the operation of a robot. The robot control device controls a robot manipulator which is equipped with an end effector. The robot control device includes: an image processing unit that, by using a feature extraction model for detecting images of the robot manipulator, and position/posture information of the robot manipulator, detects, fr...