ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,943, issued on June 3, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Taku Oya (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisuke Matsunaga (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a processor that calculates one or more predetermined command values for one or more robots to undergo synchronous control in predetermined control cycles, an output unit that outputs the one or more predetermined command values in each of the predetermined control cycles, and a generator that generates an output signal for a virtual robot. The virtual robot is virtually defined in relation to the synchronous control. The...