ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,160, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Online multi-force-adaption during machining" was invented by Dirk Hartmann (ABling, Germany), Michael Jaentsch (Princeton, N.J.), Tobias Kamps (Munich), Birgit Obst (Munich), Daniel Regulin (Munich), Florian Ulli Wolfgang Schnos (Mering, Germany) and Sven Tauchmann (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a numerical controlled machine comprising receiving a sequence of control commands which, when executed by a numerical controlled machine, cause the numerical controlled machine to machine a workpiece to obtain a predetermined workpiece geom...