ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,967, issued on April 15, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Program creation apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Yuma Shimura (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program creation apparatus acquires a work sequence executed by a robot, and creates a motion program based on the work sequence and a work information file in which information on work contained in the work sequence is recorded. Further, the work sequence is corrected from the work information file, and a new motion program based on a corrected new work sequence is created."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2022, under Application No. 17/84...