US Patent Issued to Coventry Associates on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus for performing multiple manufacturing operations on an object" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,256, issued on June 17, was assigned to Coventry Associates Inc. (West Boylston, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for performing multiple manufacturing operations on an object" was invented by Craig Martin Gardner (West Boylston, Mass.) and David Sossen (Sherborn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tool positioning and manufacturing system moves a workpiece among many tools, such as grinding wheels, each of which performs a manufacturing operation on the workpiece. The system moves the workpiece automatically, quickly, repeatably, and precisely among the tools, without any manual intervention. It can perform the same manufact...