US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on July 14 for "Method of programming manipulator, control system and industrial robot" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,952, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of programming manipulator, control system and industrial robot" was invented by Per Willfor (Vasteras, Sweden), Roger Kullang (Vasteras, Sweden) and Anders Ekelund (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of programming a manipulator, the method including providing a movement path for execution by the manipulator, the movement path having a plurality of points including a start point and an end point and at least one movement segment between the plurality of points; moving the manipulator to a path modifying position; and modifyin...