US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 13 for "Customizable axes of rotation for industrial radiography systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,260, issued on May 13, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Customizable axes of rotation for industrial radiography systems" was invented by Joseph Schlecht (Edina, Minn.), Caleb Nelson Hay (Minneapolis) and Eric Ferley (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of industrial radiography systems that enable rotation of a part about a custom axis that is offset from an actual rotation axis of a rotatable fixture that retains the part. This may be valuable in situations where it is difficult, impractical, and/or impossible to align the center of the part with the center of the rota...