US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 3 for "Tool state learning device, tool state estimation device, control device, tool state learning method, and tool state estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,911, issued on March 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Tool state learning device, tool state estimation device, control device, tool state learning method, and tool state estimation method" was invented by Shougo Inagaki (Yamanashi, Japan), Yasushi Okajima (Yamanashi, Japan), Takeshi Saitoh (Tokyo) and Tsutomu Uchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool state learning device has a storage unit for storing an arbitrary image captured by an imaging device imaging a machined surface of an arbitrary workpiece cut using an arbitrary tool, and a teacher data acquisition unit for acquiring, as input data, an arbit...