US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 23 for "Tool management device that manages tools of target device including tool holding mechanism that holds a plurality of tools" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,747, issued on June 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Tool management device that manages tools of target device including tool holding mechanism that holds a plurality of tools" was invented by Takuma Ookura (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool management device according to the present invention that manages the tools, for a target device including a tool holding mechanism that holds a plurality of tools, includes an information acquisition unit that acquires configuration information including a current tool holding state in the tool holding mechanism, a holding position setting unit that sets...