US Patent Issued to KENNAMETAL on Nov. 25 for "Earth cutting tool, earth cutting device, and related methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,366, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KENNAMETAL INC. (Latrobe, Pa.).

"Earth cutting tool, earth cutting device, and related methods" was invented by Jacob A Poremski (Latrobe, Pa.), Thomas J. Long (Greensburg, Pa.), Joshua A. Frye (Latrobe, Pa.) and Kenneth J. Topka (Latrobe, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earth cutting tool can include one or more earth cutting devices. Each earth cutting device can include a plurality of inserts positioned within a body of the cutting device. The inserts can be tapered to correspond to a tapering of pockets defined in the body to facilitate insertion and attachment of the inserts to the b...