ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,160, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Machining segment for a machining tool" was invented by Marcel Sonderegger (Balgach, Switzerland), Cliff Toldo (Vaduz, Liechtenstein), Matthias Lodes (Altendorf, Switzerland) and Stephan Huth (Memmingerberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining segment for a machining tool which is rotatable in a direction of rotation about an axis of rotation includes an underside where the machining segment is connectable to a basic body of the machining tool by the underside. A machining zone has a matrix material and a plurality of first hard material particl...