US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on June 30 for "Robot programming assistance apparatus, robot programming assistance program, and robot programming assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,966, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot programming assistance apparatus, robot programming assistance program, and robot programming assistance method" was invented by Kazuyuki Ishikawa (Kobe, Japan), Ryusuke Nishikawa (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Takatori (Kobe, Japan), Tomoya Inoue (Kobe, Japan) and Yoshiki Inaya (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programming assistance apparatus assists programming with respect to a program that operates two or more devices including at least a robot in parallel. The programming assistance apparatus includes a device extractor, a determiner, and an...