ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,513, issued on July 28, was assigned to ASMAG-Holding GmbH (Grunau im Almtal, Austria).

"End-processing center for rod-shaped workpieces" was invented by Christoph Karl Klinger (Scharnstein, Austria), Simon Pirzl (Scharnstein, Austria), Markus Puhringer (Scharnstein, Austria) and Roland Rathmayr (Scharnstein, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method process a first end and a second end of at least one rod-shaped workpiece. The system includes a conveying device for cross-conveying the at least one rod-shaped workpiece in a conveying direction, a first processing device and a second processing device. The first and...