ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,503, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Daisuke Kobayashi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Keisuke Tsujikawa (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control device controls a buffer motor supplied with power from a power source that is shared with a drive motor driving an industrial machine, the control device comprising: a motor speed specifying unit that specifies the current speed of the buffer motor; an emergency stop detection unit that detects an emergency stop state; a buffer motor command generation unit that establishes, as an initial speed, the speed of the ...