US Patent Issued to KENNAMETAL on April 8 for "System and method for real-time monitoring and predicting wear of a cutting tool" (Singaporean, American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,137, issued on April 8, was assigned to KENNAMETAL INC. (Latrobe, Pa.).

"System and method for real-time monitoring and predicting wear of a cutting tool" was invented by Shuangyuan Zhang (Singapore), Christoph Gey (Stetten, Switzerland), Patrick Kuhlemann (Fuerth, Germany) and Ruy Frota de Souza Filho (Latrobe, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring and predicting wear of a cutting tool used for machining a workpiece is disclosed. The system includes a cutting tool having a shank and a cutting head. The system also includes a split, modular and wireless wear detection system including one or more senso...