ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,372, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kistler Holding AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Cutting machine comprising a force transducer, use of such a cutting machine and process of calibrating the force transducer of such a cutting machine" was invented by Gunnar Keitzel (Hettlingen, Switzerland) and Denis Kohler (Neftenbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting machine configured for the chip-removing machining of a workpiece includes a plurality of required tools. Each tool can exert a tool force onto the workpiece. The cutting machine includes a tool holder for simultaneously holding all of the tools required for o...