US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Sept. 30 for "Composite processing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,576, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Composite processing machine" was invented by Makoto Tano (Obu, Japan), Takaya Nagahama (Obu, Japan), Keisuke Usuda (Nagoya, Japan), Koichi Shiiba (Nisshin, Japan), Kohei Kato (Nagoya, Japan) and Masato Ito (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite processing machine includes: a holding portion capable of holding a workpiece; a removal processing portion that performs removal processing on the workpiece held by the holding portion, the removal processing portion being capable of performing removal processing of a hard material; an additive manufac...