ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,099, issued on July 15, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dressing ring" was invented by Yoshikazu Suzuki (Tokyo) and Tomoharu Kihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dressing ring includes a ring-shaped dressing member for dressing a processing stone. Preferably, the dressing member has an opening in which a workpiece is arranged when the workpiece is ground. Also preferably, the dressing ring further includes a ring-shaped support plate having an upper surface on which the dressing member is fixed. In addition, a grinding method of the workpiece includes the steps of holding the ring-shaped dressing member on a holding s...