ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,188, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical controller and control method" was invented by Toshihiro Watanabe (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control device includes an NC command decoding unit and a tool information storage/generation unit. The NC command decoding unit has a cut amount decoding unit for decoding the cut amount for rough machining, a machining shape generation unit for generating a finishing shape, a machining pathway generation unit for generating a path for rough machining, a tool direction provisional determining unit for provisionally determining t...