ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,794, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device" was invented by Shinichi Ozeki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a setting detection unit that detects a setting operation on a value of a setting item related to control of the industrial machine and a notification unit configured to notify information related to the setting operation. The setting detection unit can detect a setting operation caused by execution of an MDI program, a setting operation caused by execution of a machining program, a setting operation caused by an external signal, and a settin...