US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 7 for "Device, robot system, and method for determining position of recessed portion to be formed by scraping" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,424, issued on July 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Device, robot system, and method for determining position of recessed portion to be formed by scraping" was invented by Tadanori Suzuki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining the positions of a plurality of recessed portions to be formed on a surface of a workpiece by means of scraping, in which a robot uses a scraper to shave the surface of the workpiece to make the same flat, is provided with: an input accepting unit for accepting input of shape information of the surface and pattern information of the plurality of recess...