US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Intelligent control of metal cutting chip breakers" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,705, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent control of metal cutting chip breakers" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada), Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India) and Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip breaking apparatus is provided. The chip breaking apparatus includes a robotic arm including a gripper, a cutter, an inspection element to produce an output indicative of machining tool operations and a processor receptive of the output from the inspection element. The processor is conf...