US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 8 for "Cutting tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,743, issued on July 8, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cutting tool" was invented by Nozomi Tsukihara (Osaka, Japan), Haruyo Fukui (Osaka, Japan), Toshihiro Tabata (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Kuramochi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool, including: a base; and a coating disposed on the base, wherein the coating includes a first layer composed of hexagonal W(C1-aNa)x, a represents 0.3 or more and 0.8 or less, and x represents 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less."

The patent was filed on May 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/577,284.

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