US Patent Issued to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS, SVP LASER TECHNOLOGIES on May 20 for "Hotwire cutting machine" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,101, issued on May 20, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (Chennai, India) and SVP LASER TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. (Chennai, India).

"Hotwire cutting machine" was invented by Sathyan Subbiah (Chennai, India), Viswesh Srinivasan (Chennai, India) and M. Venkateshwaran (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hotwire cutting machine (700) comprises a plurality of heated wires (701), springs (702, 702a), and grooved rods (703, 703a, and 1203) supported on end bearings (402, 403). The grooved rods (703, 703a, and 1203) are coupled to a motor (504) for rotating the grooved rods (703, 703a, and 1203) in the directi...