ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,189, issued on July 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for creating amount of wear estimation model, method for estimating amount of wear, amount of wear estimation model creation apparatus, program for creating amount of wear estimation model, amount of wear estimation apparatus, and program for estimating amount of wear" was invented by Norihiro Takimoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data obtaining step, a data obtaining unit may obtain certain data at a plurality of sampling times. The data may include measurement information regarding the amount of wear of the cutting tool and measureme...