US Patent Issued to FANUC on Oct. 21 for "Numerical control device, numerical control system, program, and numerical control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,784, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device, numerical control system, program, and numerical control method" was invented by Daiki Kikkawa (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This numerical control device comprises a distance control unit, a filter unit, a determination unit, and a setting unit. The distance control unit controls the distance between a first object and a second object to be close to a target distance. The filter unit filters a signal indicating the distance. The determination unit determines, on the basis of the target distance, a time constant obtai...