ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,693, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Yoshiaki Noguchi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device which extracts a means which reduces a manufacturing time pertaining to a machining pre-step, a machining step, and a machining post-step in manufacturing artifacts by means of a control device, the information processing device comprising: a storage unit which stores machining-related information related to the machining of a workpiece and includes a machining program; a m...