US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 2 for "Numerical control device and numerical control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,199, issued on June 2, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Numerical control device and numerical control method" was invented by Seiji Uozumi (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Sumi (Tokyo) and Shun Kayashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NC device includes an additive manufacturing execution unit that controls an additive manufacturing process for producing a shaped object by stacking layers of a material melted, a subtractive manufacturing execution unit that controls a subtractive manufacturing process for cutting the shaped object using a tool, a status analysis unit that analyzes a machining status of the shaped object...