ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,711, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Universal Robots A/S (Odense S., Denmark).

"Robot system and a method for monitoring a robot system" was invented by Ievgen Kravchenko (Odense, Denmark) and Kasper Tofte (Odense, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring a robot system comprising a robot arm and a peripheral device, the method comprising the steps of: providing a communicative peripheral connection between the peripheral device and a robot controller; establishing an operation signal history in a digital storage wherein the operation signal history is based on operation representati...