ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,135, issued on May 20, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Display control device, machine tool, and display control program" was invented by Takashi Ishiguro (Hokkaido, Japan), Masakazu Takayama (Nara, Japan) and Toshinori Ouchi (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device according to an embodiment includes a display control unit that controls display of a setup screen for performing setup for machining in a machine tool, the setup screen including (i) a menu display part displaying a plurality of setup items in a selectable manner and (ii) a detail display part displaying an operation for ...