US Patent Issued to HCL Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Method and system for computing toolpaths for machining pockets" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,945, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Method and system for computing toolpaths for machining pockets" was invented by Tathagata Chakraborty (Pune, India), Chinmaya Panda (Navi Mumbai, India) and Nitin Umap (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to method and system for machining a pocket on a raw material body. The method includes rendering 2-dimensional pixel representation corresponding to cross-section of machining tool and pocket; determining start point for toolpath from 2D pixel representation; for computing each of subsequent segments in toolpath, determining ...