ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,769, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Insert and cutting tool" was invented by Hiroyuki Nanahara (Satsumasendai, Japan), Futoshi Isobe (Satsumasendai, Japan) and Yusuke Nagaoka (Satsumasendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert of the present disclosure includes a cBN sintered compact containing cBN and TiN. The cBN occupies 60% or more of the cross-sectional area of the cBN sintered compact observed. TiN (200) is higher than cBN (111), where the TiN (200) is an X-ray intensity on a (200) plane of the TiN and the cBN (111) is an X-ray intensity on a (111) plane of the cBN, obtained by X-...