ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,788, issued on July 8, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dressing member" was invented by Kazuma Sekiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dressing member to be used for dressing of a cutting blade carried out by a cutting apparatus including a chuck table that holds a workpiece, a cutting unit that cuts the workpiece held by the chuck table by a cutting blade, a cassette mounting section on which a cassette accommodating the workpieces is mounted, and a conveying unit that conveys the workpiece between the cassette mounted on the cassette mounting section and the chuck table, includes a dressing board to be cut by the cuttin...