US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 29 for "Numerical control device and numerical control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,622, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Numerical control device and numerical control method" was invented by Masakazu Sagasaki (Tokyo), Kensuke Baba (Tokyo) and Takashi Sueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerical control device includes a control computation unit that controls a machine tool and a robot by using an NC program defined in a first coordinate system, the control computation unit includes a storage unit that stores the NC program including a first command, which is a command for the machine tool described in a first programming language, and a second command, which is a co...