US Patent Issued to Machine Research on July 1 for "Systems and methods for searching a machining knowledge database" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,338, issued on July 1, was assigned to Machine Research Corp. (Tualatin, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for searching a machining knowledge database" was invented by Richard Thomas Jones (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Brian Dean McCabe (Portland, Ore.) and Christopher John Skubic (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for searching a machining knowledge database that includes stored 3D models and associated stored part signatures. The stored part signatures each include a shape metric that corresponds to geometric attributes of the corresponding 3D model. Methods include receiving input...