US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 23 for "Control device and control method of robot, robot system, and device and method of generating operation program of robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,425, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device and control method of robot, robot system, and device and method of generating operation program of robot" was invented by Yuki Ishii (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yihua Gu (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device of a robot includes a robot control section configured to control the robot so as to sequentially position the robot at a plurality of target positions, which are set based on shape data representing a shape of a workpiece, and cause the robot to execute a work along a work target portion on the workpiece, and cause t...