US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 14 for "Offline teaching device and offline teaching method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,790, issued on July 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Offline teaching device and offline teaching method" was invented by Masaya Hirayama (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiyuki Okazaki (Shiga, Japan) and Katsuaki Okuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offline teaching device includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a plurality of welding lines of a workpiece and a scanning range of a sensor, a generation unit that generates a plurality of three-dimensional regions to be scanned, and a control unit that disposes the plurality of welding lines and the p...