US Patent Issued to Haimer on Sept. 22 for "Method and device for determining rotational slippage of a tool frictionally held in a tool holder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,351, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Haimer GmbH (Hollenbach-Igenhausen, Germany).

"Method and device for determining rotational slippage of a tool frictionally held in a tool holder" was invented by Erkut Sarikaya (Pfungstadt, Germany), Roman Morozov (Affalterbach, Germany) and Matthias Weigold (Hirschberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for determining a rotational slippage of a tool that is frictionally held in a tool holder. The rotational slippage of the tool is determined by evaluating a phase and/or a period length of a periodic process signal from the tool."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20,...