ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,663, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Workpiece support member for thermal processing machine" was invented by Masato Takatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Setoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece support member for a thermal processing machine is installed on a workpiece support table to support a workpiece to be thermally processed, and includes a base member and a supporting member. The base member is formed of a plate-like member in a horizontally long shape, and provided with a plurality of protruding supporting member attachment parts at predetermined distance interv...