ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,104, issued on June 10, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grinding method of workpiece" was invented by Daisuke Akita (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Suzuki (Tokyo) and Makoto Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grinding method includes a first grinding step of executing grinding feed of a rough grinding unit and grinding the workpiece to a predetermined thickness while supplying grinding water with a first grinding water amount that allows suppression of wear of grinding abrasive stones and a second grinding step of, after executing the first grinding step, promoting dressing of the grinding abrasive stones to prepare for processin...