ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,457, issued on May 27, was assigned to KAPP NILES GMBH & Co. KG (Coburg, Germany).
"Method for grinding a toothing or a profile of a workpiece" was invented by Andreas Fohrkolb (Niederfullbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for grinding a toothing of a workpiece by a profile grinding wheel. The workpiece each have an axis of rotation. The grinding wheel has a center which lies on the axis of rotation of the grinding wheel and in the middle of the axial extent of the grinding wheel. The workpiece has an end face at least in an axial end region of the toothing or of the profile. The method includes the steps of: a) gr...