ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,617, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VOSTECH AG (Lucerne, Switzerland).

"Tool for machining surfaces, edge regions, and contours" was invented by Josef Vogel (Horw, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for machining surfaces, edge regions, and contours comprising at least one disk-shaped base body rotatable around a tool axis and a plurality of flexible machining means, which are arranged on a circumference of the base body, wherein the machining means are formed rod-shaped and are arranged spaced apart from one another and extend substantially radially outward from the circumference of the base body, wherein at lea...