ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,261, issued on March 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Machining simulation device and machining simulation method" was invented by Tarou Ogiso (Yamanashi, Japan), Tomonobu Suzuki (Yamanashi, Japan) and Kojiro Arimatsu (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a machining simulation device capable of obtaining a machine-tool transfer function without requiring data collection and expert knowledge. The machining simulation device includes: a transmission characteristic generation unit that generates a transmission characteristic of a machine tool; and a simulation execution un...