ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,705, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Simulation device for calculating operating state of robot device" was invented by Tatsuya Oumi (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation device includes a simulation executing unit for carrying out a simulation of an operation of a robot device by means of a three-dimensional model; a target point setting unit for setting target points for polygons representing a surface of the three-dimensional model; a position calculating unit for calculating positions for all target points at a predetermined time; and an operating state calculating...