ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,496, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ATM Qness GmbH (Mammelzen, Germany).

"Vibration polishing device" was invented by Michael Kley (Birnbach, Germany) and Matthias Hofer (Katzwinkel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a vibration polishing device, comprising: a vibration drive for generating an oscillating vibration for polishing samples; a polishing disc which is connected to and can be driven by the vibration drive; and a polishing bowl which is designed to receive a polishing medium and the samples to be polished and is coupled to the polishing disc; wherein the coupling between the polish...