ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,086, issued on July 1, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Reduction of friction within a machine tool" was invented by Stephen Yutkowitz (Cincinnati), Daniel Hein (Munich) and Steffen Udluft (Eichenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for reducing friction within a machine tool is provided, including: a) reading a plurality of surrogate models for approximating friction compensation within a given machine tool, b) reading a friction compensation parameter set, c) determining a friction compensation result value for each surrogate model using the compensation parameter set, d) determining a weight...