ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,934, issued on June 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot programming device and robot programming method" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot programming device is provided with: a robot model movement unit that moves a prescribed movable part of a robot model from a first position to a second position in accordance with instruction content; an arm inversion detection unit that detects whether or not a prescribed state has occurred in which, when the prescribed movable part of the robot model is moved to the second position, any axis constituting the robot mod...