ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,746, issued on July 8, was assigned to ALTENDORF GMBH (Minden, Germany).

"Transversal table for a woodworking machine and woodworking machine having such a transversal table, and method for controlling a woodworking machine" was invented by Andreas Vehling (Hespe, Germany), Jurgen Ruchatz (Minden, Germany) and Karl-Friedrich Schroder (Espelkamp, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross table for a woodworking machine, such as a sliding table saw, and to a woodworking machine having such a cross table. The cross table includes a horizontally lying first workpiece support surface, a stop rail arranged above the first workpiece sup...