ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,529, issued on March 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot simulation device" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During or after a simulation, a change in robot operation and cycle time before and after revision of a robot program, or a difference in the robot operation and cycle time between multiple robot programs, the contents of which are partially different, are compared. This robot simulation device has a three-dimensional model arrangement unit that arranges in a virtual space a robot model representing a robot, a simulation execution unit that execute...