US Patent Issued to FANUC on July 1 for "Machine tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,085, issued on July 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Machine tool" was invented by Chikara Tango (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool capable of easily acquiring the distance between a spindle of a first unit and a holder of a second unit. A machine tool according to one embodiment comprises: relative movement mechanisms which move a table for supporting an object to be machined relatively to a support unit for supporting the first N unit and the second unit: a movement control unit which controls the relative movement mechanisms; a relative position detection unit which detects the po...