US Patent Issued to Hilti on July 22 for "Method and system for establishing a connection between a machine tool and an auxiliary device and testing an emergency cutout functionality of the auxiliary device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,114, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Method and system for establishing a connection between a machine tool and an auxiliary device and testing an emergency cutout functionality of the auxiliary device" was invented by Martin Schaefer (Schwarzach, Austria), Marco Balter (Feldkirch, Austria) and Christian Metzler (Satteins, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a system that includes a main machine tool, an auxiliary device, and a transmission device with a first sending and receiving device assigned to the main machine tool and a second sending and receiving device assigne...