ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,512, issued on March 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Horizontal articulated robot" was invented by Xing Geng (Yamanashi, Japan) and Youhei Yamaguchi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot (10) includes a fixed part (20), a first arm (21), a second arm (22), and a working shaft (25). The second arm (22) is longer than the first arm (21). A protrusion length of the working shaft (25), which is capable of protruding from the second arm (22) toward the fixed part (20) is longer than a distance between the first arm (21) and the second arm (22)."
The patent was filed on Nov. 2, 2021, under Applicat...