ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,149, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kistler Holding AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).
"Machine tool configured for successively deploying a plurality of tools to modify a workpiece during a manufacturing process" was invented by Gunnar Keitzel (Hettlingen, Switzerland), Michael Heinemann (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Stanko Tepsic (Schorndorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A procedure for measuring a measured variable in a process step of a manufacturing process uses a measurement chain with an evaluation unit and a plurality of measurement units having a sensor, a converter unit and a secondary antenna. The evaluation unit has...