ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,074, issued on May 12, was assigned to GROB-WERKE Gmbh & Co. KG (Mindelheim, Germany).

"Marking and readout methods to be carried out by means of a processing machine, processing method, processing machine and production line" was invented by Benjamin Kormann (Mindelheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable simple identification of a workpiece with little effort during machining of a workpiece on a processing machine, a marking method is provided which is to be carried out via the processing machine. The method includes a) providing a tool on a rotatable tool holder of the processing machine, b) relative linear movement o...