ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,605, issued on July 29, was assigned to AB Sandvik Coromant (Sandviken, Sweden).
"Cutting tool" was invented by Andreas Blomqvist (Stockholm), Jose Luis Garcia (Stockholm) and Erik Holmstrom (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool includes a cemented carbide substrate. The cemented carbide consists of hard constituents in a metallic binder. The hard constituents include WC. The WC content in the cemented carbide is 80-93 wt %. The cemented carbide has Ni and Al, and a Ni content of 3-13 wt %, a weight ratio of Co/Nigreater than0.33, a weight ratio of Fe/Nigreater than0.25, a weight ratio of Cr/Nigreater than0.25 and ...