US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 14 for "Simulation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,941, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Simulation device" was invented by Toshiya Takeda (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation device provided with: a region setting unit that sets an operation allowing region for a robot; an inference unit that infers the operation of the robot after stopping control is performed on the robot in response to the robot operating outside of the operation allowing region; and a visualization unit that on the basis of the inferred operation of the robot, allows the portion of the robot outside of the operation allowing region to be visualized."

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