US Patent Issued to FANUC on Aug. 25 for "Numerical controller" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,307, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller" was invented by Hiroshi Matsumura (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes a cutting position calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of cutting positions during execution of a canned cycle based on code for designating a cutting depth included in the canned cycle command, a control information calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of pieces of control information corresponding to the plurality of cutting positions calculated by the cutting position calculation unit, ...