ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,949, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control device" was invented by Yuutarou Takahashi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device comprises: a storage unit a first imaging position for performing stereoscopic measurement on a subject installed in a work space, and a second imaging position for performing stereoscopic measurement on the subject which has a larger parallax than that of the stereoscopic measurement performed at the first imaging position; a first measurement unit that performs the stereoscopic measurement on the su...