ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,750, issued on June 23.
"Machine tool, position information correction method, and position information correction program" was invented by Tatsuya Namiki (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool has a spindle configured to rotatably grip a workpiece, a turret configured to mount a tool for processing the workpieces, a movable body configured to move independently from the spindle and the turret, a contact type sensor configured to move in accordance with a movement of the movable body, and a controller configured to calculate center position information indicating a center position of the spindle based on spindle...