ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,572, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Seco Tools AB (Fagersta, Sweden).

"System, method and computer program product for decreasing the risk of erroneously handling of a tool in a machine operation" was invented by Jan Gravningsbraten (Fagersta, Sweden) and Micael Baudin (Fagersta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method, computer program product and system for decreasing the risk of erroneously handling a tool in a machine operation. The system includes a reader device for reading a machine readable code arranged at a tool part and an electronic device having a processing circuitry configured to ca...