ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,692, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device and control method for machine tool" was invented by Daisuke Tajima (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yuuki Morita (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a control device and a control method for a machine tool which are capable of further reducing a command-waiting time. This control device for a machine tool which controls synchronized operation of a main shaft and a feed shaft comprises: a numerical value control unit; a main shaft control unit; a rotation detection unit. The numerical value control unit has a main shaft command out...