ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,453, issued on March 17, was assigned to ALLIED MACHINE & ENGINEERING CORP. (Dover, Ohio).

"Machining system and cutting insert and methods" was invented by Robert E. McKinley (Akron, Ohio) and Logan Lamonica (Dover, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a machining assembly and cutting insert for machining metal or like workpieces, wherein the cutting insert body has a cutting end. The cutting end comprises at least one cutting edge and at least one cutting lip formed adjacent the at least one cutting edge. The at least one cutting lip includes at least one cutting protrusion and associated chip cutting edge to spli...