ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,241, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Tarou Ogiso (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This machine control device comprises an actuator that produces a thrust force, detects the thrust force of the actuator, acquires the temperature, calculates a threshold value that decreases monotonically with respect to the temperature, compares the thrust force of the actuator with the threshold value, and detects abutment when the thrust force exceeds the threshold value. This machine control device comprises an actuator that produces a thrust force, acquires the tem...