US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 15 for "Numerical control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,682, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology that enables reduction in communication load in a numeral control system for controlling operation of a machine tool and a robot in a cooperative manner. This numeral control system comprises: a numerical control device; a robot control device; and a variable storage unit. The robot control device has a reading-writing execution/prohibition determination unit that determines whether to prohibit or allow execution of reading and ...