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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,461, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device" was invented by Nobuhito Oonishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This numerical control device, capable of easily suppressing an increase in processing time, controls the drive axis of a machine tool on the basis of a processing program including a plurality of movement blocks each specifying a command speed, and comprises a target speed setting unit that sets a target speed obtained by, with respect to two movement blocks to be executed continuously, modifying the command speed of the movement block with a lower comman...