ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,788, issued on May 26, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot control device, robot control system, and robot control method" was invented by Atsushi Nobuhara (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination of a plurality of robots is changed in accordance with work and communication loads between the robots is reduced. A robot control device is connected to a line concentrator and constitutes a virtual local area network together with at least one other robot control device connected to the line concentrator. The robot control device includes a setting unit for setting a plurality of setting information...