ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,174, issued on April 8, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical controller" was invented by Hiroki Sawaoka (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a numerical controller that can suppress a sudden change in the angle of a rotary axis in the vicinity of a singular point and can also be compatible with any machine configuration. A numerical controller for numerically controlling a designated direction of an axis of a movement axis member by two or more rotary axes. The numerical controller comprises a singular point distance calculation unit for calculating each singular point distance from a rot...