ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,828, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CHIRON Group SE (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Machine tool with protective bellows" was invented by Samuel Vuadens (Finhaut, Switzerland), Pierre Fournier (Nax, Switzerland), Blaise Mettan (Evionnaz, Switzerland) and Dylan Maret (Martigny, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool has a frame, a tool spindle with a tool holder, a workpiece holder and a protective bellows. The tool spindle and the workpiece holder are movable relative to one another in at least two translatory axes in a working space. The working space is delimited by at least one partition wall, which has at least one...