ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,440, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TRUMPF SCHWEIZ AG (Gruesch, Switzerland) and ZUEST ENGINEERING AG (Seegraeben, Switzerland).
"Method and system for efficient recycling of residual material" was invented by Rainer Zuest (Seegraeben, Switzerland) and Tobias Meck (Igis, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method recycles residual material from processing a workpiece. The method includes the following steps: A) transmitting information about a desired material family of the residual material, tolerated accompanying materials in the residual material, and/or desired residual material part size, from a recycler computer to...