US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for maintaining a surface speed of a circular cutting device" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,097, issued on June 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for maintaining a surface speed of a circular cutting device" was invented by Sarah Marie Beranek (Glenview, Ill.), John Edward Bussan (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Douglas A. Ceckowski (Gurnee, Ill.), Christian Chkaiban (Glenview, Ill.), Chelsea B. Frid (Chicago), Jeffrey E. Joray (Lake Villa, Ill.), Michael E. Keeble (Libertyville, Ill.), Bryan J. Kordus (Mount Pleasant, Ill.) and Michael Shtilman (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a disclosure for a cutting device configured to control a linear speed of a ...