ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,503, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Hiroki Sawaoka (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention corrects errors made by a machining tool having a discretionary machine configuration, by using a graph in which constituent elements serve as nodes. This control device comprises: a control point coordinate system insertion unit that inserts, as nodes, a control point and a coordinate system, for each node of a machine configuration graph; an identifier allocation unit that allocates an identifier to the inserted control points and coordinate syst...