US Patent Issued to Element Six (UK) on May 12 for "Method of making a shaped tool component" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,974, issued on May 12, was assigned to Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Method of making a shaped tool component" was invented by David Thomas Ford (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Douglas John Geekie (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method of making a shaped tool component from a precursor sintered body comprising polycrystalline diamond (PCD). The sintered body has a PCD table joined to a substrate, and the PCD table varies in depth. The resulting shaped tool component thus also has a PCD layer with varying depth. A method of making a shaped tool component co...