US Patent Issued to Innova Zones on April 22 for "Tool control program system and method of tool control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,825, issued on April 22, was assigned to Innova Zones LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Tool control program system and method of tool control" was invented by Travis Brian Barker (Dallas) and Zack Suther (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of a tool control program that provides real-time tracking of critical data points relating to production tools between the point of issuance to a designated user to the point of return of each production tool by the designated user, including intermediate events such as sharpening, repair and damage analysis, whereby each critical data point is capable of being linked to a uni...