US Patent Issued to KENNAMETAL on Feb. 10 for "Cutting tool comprising toolholder and round cutting insert and method for repositioning the round cutting insert in a pocket of the toolholder" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,841, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KENNAMETAL INC. (Latrobe, Pa.).

"Cutting tool comprising toolholder and round cutting insert and method for repositioning the round cutting insert in a pocket of the toolholder" was invented by Jean Luc Dufour (Greensburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool including a toolholder and a round cutting insert for mounting on a pocket floor of the toolholder. The toolholder includes the toolholder pocket floor having a bore and a plurality of grooves in the pocket floor arranged radially about the bore, wherein adjacent grooves are radially offset by a groove offset angle, x. The rou...