ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,777, issued on June 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Operation control device and program" was invented by Takehiro Yamaguchi (Yamanashi, Japan), Koichiro Horiguchi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Takashi Idei (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an operation control device and program that can improve processing speed while suppressing the occurrence of synchronization errors. This operation control device uses a synthesis drive signal obtained by synthesizing two drive signals to drive by switching a drive speed of a first drive shaft, and uses one of the synthesized drive signals to drive a seco...