US Patent Issued to FANUC America on Oct. 27 for "Active support for industrial robots" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,782, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FANUC America Corp. (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

"Active support for industrial robots" was invented by Xin Hu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yi Sun (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Matthew DeNio (Clarkston, Mich.), Nivedhitha Giri (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Eric Flanagin (Ortonville, Mich.) and Robert Totten (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for automated support for industrial robots. The system includes a data collection device which communicates with all robots at a customer site, and uploads data to a remote diagnostic system. The method is activated either automatically w...