ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,907, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical value controller" was invented by Daisuke Uenishi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tomohiro Oyamada (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical value controller includes a storage unit that stores a machining program involving executing a plurality of canned cycles each including a first operation for positioning a drilling position of a workpiece relative to a tool, a second operation for moving the tool from a return point to a hole bottom point, and a third operation for moving the tool from the hole bottom point to the return point; a contro...