ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,702, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system, and industrial machine control method" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control system 1 is provided with a numerical control device 5 and a robot control device 6 The numerical control device 5 is provided with: a robot command generating unit 55 which generates a robot command for each robot command block; a robot program launch command unit 56; and a data transmitting and receiving unit 59 which transmits to the robot control device 6, in advance as a batch, a plurality of...