ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,245, issued on June 16, was assigned to KAPP NILES GMBH & Co. KG (Coburg, Germany).

"Method for dressing a multi-flight worm grinding wheel for grinding teeth or similar profiles" was invented by Philip Geilert (Ahorn, Germany), Christopher Goebel (Ahorn, Germany) and Jan Senftleben (Meeder, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dressing a multi-thread grinding worm for the grinding of toothings, wherein the grinding worm includes a plurality of worm threads that are each dressed by a dressing tool with at least one dressing stroke to provide the grinding worm with a desired profile. The method includes: a) dressing a f...