ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,998, issued on April 14, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for step-wise spindle diagnosis for machining center with different tools loaded" was invented by Sung Jae Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea), Munyoung Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyub Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jung-Chan Na (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to verifying the suitability of a tool and diagnosing a spindle for a machining center on which different tools are mounted. Provided are a machining center spindle diagnosis apparatus an...