ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,105, issued on June 10, was assigned to WOLFF INDUSTRIES INC. (Spartanburg, S.C.).

"Systems and methods for conditioning blades" was invented by David Vogel (Columbus, Ind.) and Walker Newell (Elizabethtown, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for conditioning blades are provided. A method may include, for example, obtaining a cutting device, measuring various characteristics of the cutting edge of the cutting device, creating a current edge profile based on the characteristics, creating a modified edge profile, and/or conditioning the blade. Conditioning may include grinding, buffing and/or polishing. One or more...