ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,974, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Miyoshi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller acquires a move command for an unmanned aerial vehicle in a coordinate system set in the numerical controller. The numerical controller converts a coordinate system of the move command into a coordinate system for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle, and outputs the move command to the unmanned aerial vehicle."

The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2021, under Application No. 18/034,948.

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