ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,513, issued on July 15, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical control system" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control system 1 comprises a numerical control device 5 for generating a machine tool command signal and a robot command signal, and a robot control device 6 for controlling the operation of a robot 3 on the basis of the robot command signal. The numerical control device 5 includes a coordinate form information management unit 524 for managing coordinate information according to a designated coordinate format that is based on a numerical contr...