ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,293, issued on March 11, was assigned to SOLIDCAM LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).

"Computerized tool path generation" was invented by Michael Berman (Kfar Yona, Israel), Doron Osovlanski (Givat Shmuel, Israel), Christopher Matthew Calderone (Levittown, Pa.) and Anthony Joseph Calderone (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerically controlled milling machine to fabricate a machined object from a workpiece, the machined object being configured to facilitate subsequent finishing into a finished object, the method including defining a surfac...