US Patent Issued to HORL 1993 on Oct. 7 for "Cutting tool with supporting portion for pre-set grinding angle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,396, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HORL 1993 GMBH (Germany).

"Cutting tool with supporting portion for pre-set grinding angle" was invented by Otmar Horl (Freiburg, Germany) and Timo Horl (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool, in particular a knife, includes at least one blade with a blade body and a cutting edge. In order to grind or polish the cutting tool with precision even without a grinding template, provision is made for the cutting tool to have at least one supporting portion which defines a supporting plane by means of which, for the purpose of grinding and/or polishing the cutting edge, the cut...