ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,090, issued on July 21, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).
"Machine tool" was invented by Mitsuru Taga (Nara, Japan), Tadaharu Morimoto (Nara, Japan), Yoshinori Yamamoto (Nara, Japan), Tatsuya Aizawa (Nara, Japan), Yusuke Ikeda (Nara, Japan) and Ryohei Kusama (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool includes a bed, and a table that is provided on the bed and movable in a Z-axis direction. The table includes a workpiece holder, a table base including a first support portion and a second support portion for turnably supporting the workpiece holder at positions spaced from each other in an X-axis directio...