US Patent Issued to Fanuc on Oct. 21 for "Numerical controller, machine tool, and control method for machine tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,785, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fanuc Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical controller, machine tool, and control method for machine tool" was invented by Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes an extraction unit configured to extract at least one non-machining section from a tool path based on sensor information indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor, a tool moving along the tool path, and the tool and a workpiece not coming into contact with each other in the non-machining section, a setting unit configured to set an end position of reverse movement in o...