US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 1 for "Machine programming method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,396, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Machine programming method" was invented by Hsien-Chung Lin (Fremont, Calif.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for programming a multi-segment motion plan for a machine tool which uses program points defined directly on a workpiece surface, and computes a time-optimal trajectory which transitions from air cut to cutting without stopping, while arriving at a cutting start waypoint traveling at a specified cutting feed speed. The programming method also combines what are traditionally separate air cut and cutting commands ...