ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,094, issued on July 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device, and control method" was invented by Shinichi Ozeki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to ascertain easily a positional relationship between a tool and a workpiece in a machining program, in order to stop a machine tool in accordance with the purpose. This control device for controlling a machine tool on the basis of a machining program is provided with an extracting unit for extracting, from blocks included in the machining program, a block of the machining program in which the tool and the wo...