ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,785, issued on June 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Flight path specification device and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Takashi Miyoshi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight path specification device includes: a space information generation unit configured to, based on model data on a structure of an industrial machine and an operating state of the industrial machine, generate non-interference space information indicating a non-interference space in which the industrial machine and an unmanned aircraft do not interfere with each other; a command accepting unit configured to ...