US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 30 for "Numerical control device having machine tool setup function and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,798, issued on June 30, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device having machine tool setup function and storage medium" was invented by Kanta Watanabe (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Kazuhiro Hirauchi (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device that creates information related to a machining program includes a numerical control device, a PC in which machining program creation software is installed, and a dedicated device that is an emulator for the numerical control device. The numerical control device acquires setup information required for a setup operation from the information rela...