ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,615, issued on April 29, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical control device for machine tool" was invented by Keisuke Naganuma (Yamanashi, Japan) and Kazuhiro Hirauchi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to allow for an automatic correction of an offset amount of a tool used in actual workpiece processing at an appropriate timing. The present invention provides a numerical control device for a machine tool including: an execution unit for executing a processing program; a storage unit for storing, for each tool used in each processing program, a wear amount of the each tool ...