US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 23 for "Numerical value controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,815, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical value controller" was invented by Daisuke Uenishi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tomohiro Oyamada (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical value controller for a machine tool includes a storage unit storing a machining program for drilling a hole in a workpiece in accordance with relative movement between a tool and workpiece in a depth direction, and a control unit controlling the relative movement between the tool and workpiece based on the machining program and that moves the tool relative to the workpiece in the depth direction from a...