Appeal No. 95-2784
Application 08/193,634
processor as a device which receives feedback information,
processes it and carries out the operation necessary to
complete a feedback loop.
When interpreting a claim, words of the claim are
generally given their ordinary and accustomed meaning, unless
it appears from the specification or the file history that
they were
used differently by the inventor. Carroll Touch, Inc. v.
Electro Mechanical Sys., Inc., 15 F.3d 1573, 1577, 27 USPQ2d
1836, 1840 (Fed. Cir. 1993). In view of the definition of
Appellant's claimed term "active processor" and the claim
language recited in claim 1, we find that Appellant's claims
set forth a single active processor that not only controls the
data defining means and the data converting means but also
receives feedback information and controls the operation of
each motor to provide coordinate relative movement between the
tool and the workpiece along each of the multiple axes.
Turning to Hyatt, we find that Hyatt's processor 12
shown in Figure 1 does not receive feedback information and
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