ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,547, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Hangjie Jiang (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a robot and an articulated shaft of the robot, the articulated shaft being attached to the distal end of an arm of the robot. The control device includes an operation program analysis unit that calculates a movable range of a combination of the robot and articulated shaft based on an operation program, and a robot/tool moving distance calculation unit that, based on the calculated movable range, sets an amount of movement o...