US Patent Issued to FANUC America on Oct. 6 for "Industrial robot production data clustering for anomaly prediction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,422, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FANUC America Corp. (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

"Industrial robot production data clustering for anomaly prediction" was invented by Xin Hu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yi Sun (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Claude Dinsmoor (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Rick Wunderlich (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for analyzing robot data to identify anomalies. Data from robot production operations are provided to a processor running a K-means clustering algorithm which separates the data into a number (K) of clusters. The K-means clustering algorithm is executed two or more times on the data,...