ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,605, issued on April 7, was assigned to FMB Maschinenbau- gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (Faulbach, Germany).

"Material bar magazine for guiding material bars on an automatic lathe as well as a system consisting of such a magazine and automatic lathe" was invented by Steffen Schwab (Altenbuch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material bar magazine for guiding material bars on an automatic lathe and a system having such a magazine and automatic lathe having at least one headstock that is displaceable along a longitudinal axis of the material bar magazine, where the material bar magazine includes a material bar-guiding channel syste...