US Patent Issued to AMADA on June 17 for "Joint amount control device, joint amount control method, joint amount control program, and laser processing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,238, issued on June 17, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Joint amount control device, joint amount control method, joint amount control program, and laser processing machine" was invented by Haruo Miyamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Gohongi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoyasu Narita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing program analyzer analyzes a processing program and extracts first and second codes included in the processing program and indicating a joint-constituting pair of a first endpoint of a cutting path on a laser cutting start side and a second endpoint of a cutting path on a laser cutti...