ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,615, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Autodesk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Even out wearing of machine components during machining" was invented by Lee Sanders (Tamworth, Great Britain) and Akmal Ariff Bin Abu Bakar (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of physical structures using subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques include, in one aspect, a method including obtaining information regarding a geometry of a part to be machined by a computer-controlled manufacturing system from a workpiece; based o...