ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,696, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Machine tool system" was invented by Yoshihiko Tarui (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool system includes a schedule storage unit that stores machining schedule information containing a machining sequence of a plurality of workpieces, and a priority-level setting unit that allows a user to designate any of the workpieces in the machining schedule information stored in the schedule storage unit and to set a priority level for the designated workpiece. The workpiece for which the priority level is set by the priority-level setting unit i...