US Patent Issued to Iscar on June 17 for "Cutting head having tip portion with radially extending front cutting edges provided with both negative and positive rake angles, and rotary cutting tool" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,224, issued on June 17, was assigned to Iscar Ltd. (Tefen, Israel).

"Cutting head having tip portion with radially extending front cutting edges provided with both negative and positive rake angles, and rotary cutting tool" was invented by Arie Brodski (Nesher, Israel), David Ben Harouche (Nahariya, Israel) and Anatoly Yanovski (Maalot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting head rotatable about a first axis, comprising an intermediate portion and a tip portion. The intermediate portion has a plurality of leading edges defining a cutting diameter, and the tip portion has an axially forwardmost tip point and a plurality of fr...