US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 3 for "Machining program editing assist device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,422, issued on March 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Machining program editing assist device" was invented by Zhaojia Liu (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining program editing assist device includes a CAD data analysis unit which analyzes CAD data of a workpiece after a change, and acquires CAD shape information about the workpiece after the change, and a machining program analysis unit which analyzes a machining program before the change, and acquires machining shape information about the workpiece before the change. The device also includes an input shape prediction unit which acquires pre...