US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 22 for "Numerical controller" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,074, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller" was invented by Kazuhiko Morisaki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes: a control unit that interprets a machining program including tool information for identifying a tool to control the axis of a machine tool; a feedback information acquisition unit that acquires, from the machine tool, feedback information indicating the position of the axis; a tool change information acquisition unit that acquires, from the machine tool, change information indicating that the tool has been changed; a s...