ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,945, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Shimotsuke, Japan).

"Method for supplying or removing sliding process material to/from surface of object to be slid" was invented by Takayuki Saito (Shimotsuke, Japan), Masahiro Nishimoto (Shimotsuke, Japan), Ikuo Mitsushima (Kanuma, Japan) and Masaki Kaneko (Shimotsuke, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supplying a sliding process material to or removing it from a surface of an object to be slid using a sliding part including a plurality of sliding bodies each having a flat working surface, the sliding part is regularly moved, preferably by a second driving mec...