ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,782, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control device, control system, robot system and controlling method" was invented by Shogo Hasegawa (Kobe, Japan) and Tetsuya Yoshida (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control device includes a memory part configured to store storing operational information for causing the robot to perform a given operation, and a processing part configured to control operation of the robot by using the storing operational information as automatic operational information for causing the robot to perform an automatic work. The processing part is adapted to ...