US Patent Issued to Element Six (UK) on Nov. 25 for "Cutting elements for a cutting tool and methods of making and using same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,396, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Didcot, Great Britain).

"Cutting elements for a cutting tool and methods of making and using same" was invented by Santonu Ghosh (Didcot, Great Britain) and Christopher John Howard Wort (Didcot, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting element (1) for a cutting tool has a sensor element, a body of super hard material (12) having a working surface, the sensor element being attached to a portion of the super hard material (12), and one or more conducting wires extending from the sensor element through one or more channels extending through the body of super ha...