US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 2 for "Numerical control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,227, issued on June 2, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system" was invented by Ryou Nakamura (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This numerical control system 1 comprises: a numerical control device 5 that generates a machine-tool command signal, which is a command to a machine tool 2, in accordance with a machine-tool numerical control program, and generates a robot command signal, which is a command to a robot 3, in accordance with a robot numerical control program described on the basis of a robot coordinate system; and a robot control device 6 that controls an operation of the robot ...