ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,685, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Element Six Ltd. (County Clare, Ireland).
"Method of machining articles from a superhard disc" was invented by Eric Curry (County Clare, Ireland) and James McNamara (County Clare, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method of machining articles from a disc comprising superhard material, such as polycrystalline diamond (PCD) or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PCBN). The method includes providing a disc having a diameter of no more than 100 mm and a thickness of no more than 10 mm, providing a nesting pattern, scanning the disc to identify and locate any flaws...