US Patent Issued to Toshiro DOI, National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology, Fujikoshi Machinery on March 25 for "Work processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,641, issued on March 25, was assigned to Toshiro DOI (Fukuoka, Japan), National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology (Niigata, Japan) and Fujikoshi Machinery Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Work processing apparatus" was invented by Hideo Aida (Niigata, Japan), Hidetoshi Takeda (Niigata, Japan), Toshiro Doi (Fukuoka, Japan), Tadakazu Miyashita (Nagano, Japan) and Atsushi Kajikura (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work processing apparatus performs processing of a surface to be processed of a work by causing a processing head to come into sliding contact with the work held on an upper surface of a holding pla...