ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,714, issued on March 25, was assigned to OKUMA Corp. (Niwa-gun, Japan).
"Cell controller" was invented by Masato Ryoki (Aichi, Japan), Koji Eba (Aichi, Japan), Akihito Kataoka (Aichi, Japan) and Takatoshi Asai (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cell controller for controlling an operation of a machining cell including two or more machines and one or more robots as work resources, the cell controller being configured to control the operation of the machining cell based on a production program recorded with one or more processes to be executed at the time of producing only one article of a corresponding item in...