ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,769, issued on June 3, was assigned to NILEWORKS INC. (Tokyo).

"Industrial machinery system, industrial machine, control apparatus, control method for industrial machinery system, and control program for industrial machinery system" was invented by Chihiro Wake (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yanagishita (Tokyo) and Yutaka Murakumo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an industrial machinery system including an industrial machine, an area information acquiring device that acquires information on an operation area where the industrial machine is to be caused to perform an operation, and a control apparatus that determines whether t...