US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 30 for "Numerical control system, and method for controlling industrial machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,854, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control system, and method for controlling industrial machine" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control system 1 is provided with: a numerical control device 5 including a machine tool control module 50; a robot controller 6 including a robot control module 60 for controlling the movement of a robot 3; and a variable storage unit 58 for storing the values of a plurality of variables that can be read and written by both modules 50, 60. The machine tool control module 50 reads the value of a...