ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,275, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical controller and machine tool" was invented by Toshihiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes an information storage unit that stores, in association with identification information assigned to a tool, coordinate conversion information used to convert a coordinate value in a rotating coordinate system into a coordinate value in a reference coordinate system, an information acquisition unit that acquires, from a machining program, a coordinate value that indicates a movement path of the tool to which the ...