ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,259, issued on June 17, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Liaoning, China).

"Combined grinding wheel for ultrasonic machining and design method therefor" was invented by Renke Kang (Liaoning, China), Zhigang Dong (Liaoning, China), Yidan Wang (Liaoning, China), Xianglong Zhu (Liaoning, China), Shang Gao (Liaoning, China) and Yan Bao (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined grinding wheel for ultrasonic machining and the determine method thereof. The combined grinding wheel for ultrasonic machining comprises: an outer grinding ring, an upper end thereof having a center taper hole and a plurality of out...