ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,591, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical control device and control method" was invented by Daisuke Uenishi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Kenji Kaihara (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a numerical control device and a control method that enable simple true circular processing. The numerical control device is provided with: a true circular processing unit that, using an operative command, causes a cutting tool to perform true circular processing on a workpiece with a starting point set as a center; and a processing program calculation unit that, in order to give a command...