US Patent Issued to Fives Landis on March 11 for "Machine tools and methods of operation thereof" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,407, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fives Landis Ltd. (Keighley, Great Britain).

"Machine tools and methods of operation thereof" was invented by Michael D. Skinner (Skipton, Great Britain) and Daniel P. Turner (Skipton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool is configured to receive input data defining a profile to be machined onto a workpiece, with the profile defined in a plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the workpiece and non-circular in that plane, and calculate using an evolutionary algorithm a workpiece velocity profile corresponding to the velocities at which the workpiece is to be rotat...