ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,246, issued on March 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control device and numerical control system" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control system 1 comprises a robot control device 6 that controls an action of a robot 30, and a numerical control device 5 that is communicably connected to the robot control device 6, and controls an action of a machine tool 2. The robot control device 6 comprises: a storage unit 61 that stores a plurality of robot programs determined for each operating action with respect to a target of an operation, the target of...