ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,049, issued on March 4, was assigned to MAPAL Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG (Aalen, Germany).
"Reamer" was invented by Jochen Kress (Aalen, Germany) and Matthias Klasche (Bopfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a reamer (3), having a main body (5) and at least one cutting tip (1) arranged on the main body (5), the cutting tip (1) having a reamer section (7), the cutting tip (1) having, at a distance (A) from the reamer section (7), a roughening section (9) having at least one roughening blade (11), the at least one roughening blade (11) protruding beyond the reamer section (7) by a par...