US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric, Yamazaki Mazak on April 29 for "Numerical controller, numerical control machine tool, machining program generation device, and machining program generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,616, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo) and Yamazaki Mazak Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Numerical controller, numerical control machine tool, machining program generation device, and machining program generation method" was invented by Tomoya Fujita (Tokyo), Takeshi Kubo (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Tokyo), Junji Matsuno (Tokyo), Kohei Hibino (Aichi, Japan), Takuya Hirao (Aichi, Japan) and Akira Iseki (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical controller includes: a model holding unit that holds a machine model, the machine model being a model that simulates deformation of a mechanical struct...