ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,220, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZCC CUTTING TOOLS EUROPE GMBH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Cutting tool" was invented by Quanliang Zhao (Dusseldorf, Germany), Jose Agustin-Paya (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany) and Robert Militello (Dortmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cutting tool for machining, in particular for a peeling-like machining process, comprising a chip-forming depression which runs along the cutting edge and in which elevated chip-forming elements are formed. According to the invention, the elevated chip-forming elements have an elongated contour with a length which is greater than ...