ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,795, issued on May 26, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Yuta Namiki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling an industrial machine, the control device comprising: an image operating unit that displays an image captured by a visual sensor on a display screen, and accepts a user operation with respect to the image; and a motion control unit that controls a motion of the industrial machine so as to move a visual field of the visual sensor displayed as an image on the display screen, in accordance with the accepted user operation."

The patent was fil...