US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 1 for "Program creation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,399, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Program creation device" was invented by Yihua Gu (Yamanashi, Japan) and Takashi Satou (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a program creation device capable of creating an operation program for a robot for removal machining of a workpiece even when a sufficient amount of displacement does not exist between a machined surface and a reference surface of the workpiece or even when the amount of displacement changes. The present disclosure pertains to a program creation device for creating an operating program for a robot for removal machini...