US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 18 for "Offline programming device and offline programming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,843, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Offline programming device and offline programming method" was invented by Tomoki Sakuma (Kobe, Japan), Junichi Kawabata (Kobe, Japan), Hiroyuki Moriishi (Kobe, Japan), Takemasa Yamasaki (Kobe, Japan), Shoji Shimizu (Kobe, Japan) and Yuhei Taniuchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offline programming device includes an input unit that receives input of a plurality of teaching points, a creation unit that determines intermediate point located between adjacent teaching points and creates an operation program for the robot, a simulation unit th...