ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,283, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KITAMURA MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Takaoka, Japan).

"Machining center automatic operating system" was invented by Akihiro Kitamura (Toyama, Japan), Toshihisa Tanada (Toyama, Japan) and Kazutaka Kitamura (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic operation system in which automatic operation control can be selectively exercised on a plurality of previously registered machining centers from a remotely located terminal via a cloud server is provided. The machining center automatic operating system includes: a cloud-side control unit that is provided in a cloud server connected to a CNC dev...