ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,525, issued on March 17, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot system" was invented by Kentaro Koga (Yamanashi, Japan) and Wataru Miyazaki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This robot system includes a robot and a robot control device for performing control so as to cause the robot to execute prescribed work on the basis of the result of detection of a subject to be detected by a sensor, the robot control device being provided with an abnormality-detection-time processing unit for, in accordance with sensing of an abnormality pertaining to the detection operation carried out by the sensor, controlling...