US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 31 for "Teaching point generation device that generates teaching points on basis of output of sensor, and teaching point generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,485, issued on March 31, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Teaching point generation device that generates teaching points on basis of output of sensor, and teaching point generation method" was invented by Ryunosuke Utsumi (Yamanashi, Japan), Shigeo Yoshida (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuichi Matsuda (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device includes a search point calculation unit that calculates the position of a search point on the basis of at least one teaching point; and a command unit that drives a robot such that the position of the robot corresponds to the search point. The robot contr...