US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 14 for "Control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,455, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Shinichi Ozeki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device is provided with: an extraction unit which extracts, on the basis of a machine configuration including the number of axes and/or the number of systems in a machine tool, a plurality of task items included in setup work for the next process in the machine tool, as essential settings or optional settings; a determination unit which dynamically determines, in accordance with operation details of setup work performed on the machine tool during a period fr...