US Patent Issued to FANUC on Dec. 16 for "Numerical controller and control method to control a multi-edge tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,696, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller and control method to control a multi-edge tool" was invented by Toshihiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical value control device controls a machine tool in which a multi-edge tool for turning is used to turn a workpiece, and said numerical value control device includes: an NC command decoder unit that decodes a command of a processing program; and a tool information generation unit that generates geometric information pertaining to the multi-edge tool. The NC command decoder unit includes: a tool path gen...