US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 9 for "Control device and control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,673, issued on June 9, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device and control system" was invented by Takashi Miyoshi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device controls industrial machinery. The control device includes a command analysis unit that analyzes blocks of a control program and creates command data that are based on the command of a given block; a safe operation command storage unit that stores, in advance, command data of a safe operation for transitioning the operating status of industrial machinery into a prescribed safe state; a receiving-interval-monitoring unit that monito...