ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,245, issued on March 24, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical value controller" was invented by Daisuke Uenishi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tomohiro Oyamada (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical value controller includes: a storage unit storing a machining program involving executing canned cycles including a first operation for moving a tool to a return point, a second operation for positioning a drilling position of a workpiece relative to the tool, a third operation for moving the tool from the return point to a hole bottom point, and a fourth operation for moving the tool from the hole bot...