US Patent Issued to Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik on Nov. 18 for "Method for gear shaping a periodic structure, in particular a toothing, and shaping machine designed therefor" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,568, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

"Method for gear shaping a periodic structure, in particular a toothing, and shaping machine designed therefor" was invented by Kurt Kleinbach (Beilstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for gear shaping a periodic structure, in particular a toothing on a workpiece, in which method the workpiece, continuously rotating about its axis of rotation, is brought into material-removing machining engagement with a toothed shaping tool which rotates about its axis of rotation in rolling contact with the...