ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,812, issued on June 30, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Robot teaching device and robot teaching method" was invented by Yoshiki Kanai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot teaching device and a robot teaching method with which a robot can be caused to carry out a series of tasks with high work efficiency. A feature quantity acquisition unit acquires feature quantity data indicating an amount of effect that an action of a worker has on work targets; an important point period determination unit determines, from periods for which action data is acquired and on the basis of the feature quantity data, periods in which the ...