US Patent Issued to Siemens on Aug. 12 for "Operating facility for a CNC control system for controlling a machine tool with a rotary controller" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,999, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Operating facility for a CNC control system for controlling a machine tool with a rotary controller" was invented by Jochen Bretschneider (Owingen, Germany) and Matthias Bauschert (Daaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating facility for a CNC control system controls a machine tool with a plurality of machine axes. A tool inserted into a tool receptacle of a tool spindle can be displaced relative to a workpiece and/or rotated about a tool spindle axis. A rotary controller manually operated by an operator can set a feed rate with which the tool is moved rela...