ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,342, issued on April 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Iwao Makino (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device having the function of creating new setting parameters, which are candidates of a parameter to be applied when updating old software to new software, is provided with a software information storage unit, a recommended parameter creating unit, and a parameter storage unit, wherein the software information storage unit acquires and stores, from a storage medium, new software including new item information and candidate value information relating to the par...