ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,793, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system and robot control method" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This numerical control system comprises: a numerical control device 5 that generates a high-level command signal including a robot command signal for a robot 3 according to a numerical control program; and a robot control device 6 that generates a robot control signal for controlling the operation of the robot 3 on the basis of the high-level command signal and inputs the robot control signal to the robot 3. The robot control devi...