ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,928, issued on June 30, was assigned to KARL HEESEMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & Co. KG (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany).

"Unit for deburring and rounding edges in a surface grinding machine" was invented by Christoph Giese (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an edge machining unit for a surface grinder, comprising: a plurality of cylindrical rotary brushes with a cylindrical surface and a plurality of brushes on said cylindrical surface, wherein each cylindrical rotary brush has a first axis of rotation, which corresponds to a central longitudinal axis of the cylindrical rotary brush, a fir...