ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,283, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MISUMI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Assistance system for setting machining condition, assistance program used in the assistance system, and control method thereof" was invented by Hiroyuki Uzawa (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance system, that receives model data of an article from a client terminal and assists setting of a machining condition of the article, has: a specification unit configured to specify a first welding portion of the article from the model data according to a first condition among a plurality of priority conditions in manufacturing the arti...