US Patent Issued to FANUC on Nov. 3 for "Control system including machine and tool, controller for controlling the machine and/or the tool, and external device connected to the controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,911, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control system including machine and tool, controller for controlling the machine and/or the tool, and external device connected to the controller" was invented by Masanobu Hatada (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Kensuke Ayato (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control system includes a machine and a tool driven and controlled by using independent coordinate systems that differ from each other, and a control device that controls at least one of the machine or tool. The control system comprises a conversion unit that converts the coordinate sys...