US Patent Issued to FANUC on Aug. 25 for "Teaching tool, and teaching device for using operator's hand to set teaching point" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,119, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Teaching tool, and teaching device for using operator's hand to set teaching point" was invented by Ryuunosuke Utsumi (Yamanashi, Japan), Shigeo Yoshida (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yasuhiro Amagata (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device is provided with a camera which images a teaching tool which includes a characteristic area, and a characteristic position detection unit which detects the position of the characteristic area. The robot control device includes a movement instruction generating unit which, when an operator has moved the...