ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,486, issued on May 27, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Numerical controller and machining system" was invented by Ryo Kinouchi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Shingo Tachiki (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller for use in a machining system including a rotary table device that has a table, a drive mechanism for rotating and positioning the table around an axis, and a clamp mechanism for restricting rotation of the table, the numerical controller being adapted to control the rotary table device according to a machining program containing a plurality of instruction statements and including an ...