US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 1 for "Simulator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,938, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Simulator" was invented by Toshiya Takeda (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulator comprises a fluid property acquiring unit for acquiring the properties of a fluid to be discharged; a mesh division unit for dividing the surface of a CAD model for a workpiece into meshes; an application amount calculation unit for calculating the amount of the fluid applied to each mesh; a maximum film thickness calculation unit for calculating the maximum film thickness of the fluid that each mesh can hold; and a first moving amount calculation unit for calc...