ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,330, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH (Ludwigsburg, Germany).
"Method for hard fine machining of two toothings on a workpiece, and gear cutting machine, control program, hard fine machining combination tools and sensor assembly therefor" was invented by Roman Minas (Illnau, Switzerland), Raphael Hunziker (Rothrist, Switzerland), Severin Lang (Aefligen, Switzerland), Marc Burki (Langenthal, Switzerland) and Silvan Riederer (Winterthur, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for hard finishing two different toothings on a workpiece, wherein, prior to each machining process, to set t...