ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,393, issued on July 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Machine for storing in-machining information and a comparison result" was invented by Masahide Yamaoka (Yamanashi-ken, Japan) and Meguru Yamaguchi (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing machine is provided which can accurately evaluate the results of periodic inspection. This processing machine, for processing a workpiece, is provided with: an information storage unit which, as reference information, stores information that includes multiple pieces of in-process information, which indicate the processing state when the workpiece was subj...