ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,664, issued on April 7, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal device" was invented by Sho Fujisawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device includes a coordinate-system setting portion which sets a user coordinate system on the basis of a marker included in an image, photographed by a photographing portion, including an industrial robot and a work space of the industrial robot, a coordinate giving portion which gives a coordinate of the user coordinate system to point-group data obtained by a distance measuring portion which measures a distance to an object included in the image, a region specif...