ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,472, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device" was invented by Hiroki Murakami (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a numerical control device for improving cycle time and machined surface quality. The numerical control device (1) comprises: a machining program reading unit (10) that generates, on the basis of a read machining program, a tool center point sequence indicating a path of a center point of a tool of a machining tool; an interpolation control unit (11) that interpolates the tool center point sequence generated by the machining program reading uni...