US Patent Issued to ISCAR on July 21 for "Insert holder having weight-reducing voids and cutting tool" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,064, issued on July 21, was assigned to ISCAR LTD. (Tefen, Israel).

"Insert holder having weight-reducing voids and cutting tool" was invented by Martin Ulrich Zettler (Vaihingen-Horrheim, Germany), Nikolaos Poussios (Vaihingen-Horrheim, Germany) and Henner Michael Dziubas (Vaihingen-Horrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert holder includes a cutting portion and a shank portion. The insert holder further includes a cavity which includes a cavity chamber and a plurality of cavity through recesses which serve to reduce the weight of the insert holder. The plurality of cavity through recesses open out to the cavity cham...