ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,949, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAMAZAKI MAZAK Corp. (Niwa-gun, Japan).

"Method for pressing tailstock of machining apparatus, machining apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Naoya Tanaka (Niwa-gun, Japan), Toraharu Ryuta (Niwa-gun, Japan), Hiroyuki Ueki (Niwa-gun, Japan), Masaki Hirose (Niwa-gun, Japan), Yuji Sakai (Niwa-gun, Japan), Nozomu Sawamura (Niwa-gun, Japan), Shogo Kakehi (Niwa-gun, Japan) and Kazuya Kusaka (Niwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining apparatus includes a processor configured to control an actuator to move a tailstock in a first direction at a first speed, t...