ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,535, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Coated cutting tool and preparation method thereof" was invented by Chengyong Wang (Guangzhou, China), Haisheng Lin (Guangzhou, China), Lijuan Zheng (Guangzhou, China), Tongchun Kuang (Guangzhou, China), Yang Deng (Guangzhou, China) and Qimin Wang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool for machining titanium alloy or superalloy includes a Me-B-N coating. The Me-B-N coating is Me1-B-N; Me1 is one or more selected from transition metal elements Hf, V, Nb, Ta and Mo, and the atomic percentage of each element is: Me1: ...