US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 24 for "Assistance device and mechanical system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,253, issued on March 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Assistance device and mechanical system" was invented by Tatsuo Karakama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance device configured to assist operations with respect to a plurality of machines is provided with: an information storage unit for storing machine information including at least one of maintenance history information, abnormality history information, and predicted service life information for each of the plurality of machines, in association with identification information of the machine; a criteria accepting unit for accepting ...