ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,904, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Kenichiro Shirai (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control device that controls electric discharge machining includes: a program path creation unit that analyzes a machining program consisting of a plurality of machining processes including rough machining, semi-finishing machining, and final finishing machining and creates a program path for each of the machining processes; a machining condition storage unit that stores a plurality of machining conditio...