ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,336, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller" was invented by Kasumi Satou (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The numerical controller of the invention receives input of a technique for operating a plurality of tools and an operation condition of the operation technique, calculates movement command data including speed information and position information on the plurality of tools, such that respective cutting paths of the plurality of tools intersect, based on the input operation method and operation condition, generates interpolation data based on the movement command d...