ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,667, issued on April 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Robot programming device" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot programming device capable of improving the teaching efficiency of a motion program for a fitting work performed by a robot is provided. This robot programming device includes: a feature acquisition unit for acquiring shape features of a first work object model and a second work object model; a teaching point setting unit for setting, on the basis of the shape features, a teaching point for fitting an axis of the first work object model into a hol...