US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 28 for "Mask-setting device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,500, issued on July 28, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Mask-setting device" was invented by Wataru Tooyama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention definitively and efficiently calculates a three-dimensional plane of a workpiece to be measured by automating the mask processing. A mask-setting device which, when obtaining three-dimensional information about a workpiece by using a three-dimensional sensor, sets a mask which makes three-dimensional points outside a measurement target region not usable in the calculation of a three-dimensional plane, said device being equipped with an outli...