ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,079, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CERATIZIT Besigheim GmbH (Besigheim, Belgium).
"Maintenance indicator" was invented by Jens Maier (Besigheim, Germany), Sophie Muller (Besigheim, Germany), Daniel Dos Santos Batista (Kempten, Germany), Kai Reichert (nee Gellert) (Besigheim, Germany) and Markus Mack (Besigheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance indicator stores an information bit string. The information bit string encodes at least a section of a piece of maintenance information of a component of a cutting tool in binary. The information bit string has a plurality of information bits. Each information bit has...