US Patent Issued to Extrude Hone on Aug. 4 for "Abrasive flow machine, method for ascertaining material removal on a workpiece, and method for determining the cutting power of a grinding medium" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,697, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Extrude Hone GmbH (Holzguenz, Germany).

"Abrasive flow machine, method for ascertaining material removal on a workpiece, and method for determining the cutting power of a grinding medium" was invented by Fabio Augusto Wosniak (Holzguenz, Germany) and Patrick Matt (Holzguenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abrasive flow machine is indicated, having a media drive device which is adapted to move the abrasive medium over a surface of a workpiece and/or through the opening of the workpiece in a flow direction, having a workpiece holder for mounting the workpiece with two parts adapted to be...