US Patent Issued to WATCHOUTCORP on June 17 for "Machining module and machine tool with a unit for detecting the profile of the tool, and method for detecting the profile of the tool" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,254, issued on June 17, was assigned to WATCHOUTCORP SA (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland).

"Machining module and machine tool with a unit for detecting the profile of the tool, and method for detecting the profile of the tool" was invented by Philippe Jacot (Bevaix, Switzerland) and Sebastien Laporte (Thyez, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material removing machining module for a machine tool including: a part support intended to receive a part to be machined, a control unit of the part support adapted to control and to modify the position of the part support in the machining module, a toolholder intended to receive a tool hav...