US Patent Issued to IML Instrumenta Mechanik Labor on April 21 for "Drilling needle, drilling resistance measuring device and use thereof for investigating properties of wood" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,545, issued on April 21, was assigned to IML Instrumenta Mechanik Labor GmbH (Wiesloch, Germany).

"Drilling needle, drilling resistance measuring device and use thereof for investigating properties of wood" was invented by Erich Hunger (Karlsruhe, Germany), Sebastian Hunger (Leimen, Germany) and Fabian Hunger (Leimen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling needle includes a needle head at one end of a needle shank. The needle head has a flattened wedge portion with two wedge faces and a cutter portion with two cutting faces, which each adjoin one of the wedge faces and adjoin one another at a top edge that runs at a right...