ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,375, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.).
"Virtual integrated machining simulator" was invented by Michael James Anzilotti (Pelham, N.Y.), Antoine Giovanni Amblard (London), Brian Kaufmann (Dresher, Pa.), Andrew J. Chilicki (Saint James, N.Y.), Garan E. Comfort (Plattsburgh, N.Y.), Israel Montero-Sanchez (Chicago) and Alexander Allen Brown (Freemansburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining simulator for providing haptic feedback to a user, said simulator comprising a processor coupled to a simulation machine, said processor configured to receive at least one input from said simulation machine...