ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,094, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kistler Holding AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).
"System for chip-removing machining of a workpiece and for measuring and evaluating force and torque during chip-removing machining of the workpiece" was invented by Christian Gerber (Seuzach, Switzerland) and Gunnar Keitzel (Hettlingen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for chip-removing machining of a workpiece and for measuring and evaluating force and torque during the chip-removing machining of the workpiece includes a machine tool with a tool for chip-removing machining of the workpiece; a device for measuring force and torqu...