ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,396, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machining condition search device and machining condition search method" was invented by Hideyuki Masui (Tokyo), Toshiaki Kurokawa (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining result processing device includes processing circuitry configured to collect machining result information; calculate a provisional evaluation value for machining performed; estimate an estimated convergence value when the provisional evaluation value has not converged; determine whether to terminate the machining before the provisional evaluation value ...