ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,017, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Shinichi Ozeki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is for controlling an industrial machine. The control device has a display control unit that divides a screen displayed on a display unit into a plurality of regions and displays representations, on the regions, concerning respective motion executions of the machine, a detection unit that, when a plurality of the representations are displayed in a combination, detects operation of a user on the machine or detects a time period in wh...