ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,804, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Tooling machine process" was invented by Claudio Iseli (Au, Switzerland), Claudio D'Angelo (Lindau, Germany) and Silvan Meile (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically adapting an adaptable process parameter of a tooling machine, the tooling machine being part of a first or second manufacturing process for physically processing input work pieces into output work pieces. According to the method, at least one geometric feature of an output work piece is measured by a coordinate measuring machine, th...