ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,830, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Okuma Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

"Machining accuracy diagnosing device and machining accuracy management system for machine tool" was invented by Yuji Mizoguchi (Niwa-Gun, Japan), Takashi Norihisa (Niwa-Gun, Japan) and Toshihiko Murahashi (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining accuracy diagnosing device includes a diagnosing information acquiring, an opening time setting unit, a cutting time setting unit, and a machining accuracy influence amount predicting unit. The diagnosing information acquiring unit acquires at least one of a room temperature inside the plant, a set temp...