US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM, Murata Machinery, OKUMA on Sept. 30 for "Machining apparatus and cutting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,578, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Aichi, Japan), Murata Machinery Ltd. (Aichi, Japan) and OKUMA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Machining apparatus and cutting method" was invented by Takehiro Hayasaka (Nagoya, Japan), Soohyun Nam (Nagoya, Japan) and Eiji Shamoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation mechanism rotates a spindle to which a cutting tool or a workpiece is attached. A rotation controller controls the rotation of the spindle by the rotation mechanism. A feed mechanism moves the cutting tool relative to the workpiece. The...