US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 23 for "Numerical controller" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,781, issued on June 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller" was invented by Yoshinori Saijo (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes a first processing unit configured to execute a first process of determining whether or not a control program includes a wait command, a second processing unit configured to execute a second process of determining whether or not a wait condition included in the wait command is satisfied when it is determined that the control program includes the wait command, and a third processing unit configured to execute a third process...