ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,589, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing component, processing apparatus, and component" was invented by Jun Eto (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to eliminate formation of a shape that induces reduction of fatigue strength, without forming a step part, in a shape portion formed by machining. This processing apparatus includes end mills having bottom blades formed in a curved convex shape, and arcuately formed radial blades provided in corner areas; a drive section for driving the end mills; and a control uni...