US Patent Issued to FANUC on Aug. 25 for "Numerical control device with prevention of unintended automatic re-execution of a machining program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,306, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device with prevention of unintended automatic re-execution of a machining program" was invented by Shunichi Gomi (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Kazuo Sato (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention stores file identification information and edit dates and times for processing programs, stores file identification information for a program to be run that is a processing program that has been set to be run, recognizes the attachment of an external storage device, and, when the program to be run is stored at the att...