ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,326, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Cutting tool and method for manufacturing machined product" was invented by Hirohisa Ishi (Moriyama, Japan) and Hirokazu Hatano (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a body which extends from a front end toward a rear end along a rotation axis and includes a pocket, a cutting part located in the pocket, and an elastic body which is located between the body and the cutting part and applies an urging force in a direction toward the rear end to the cutting part. The pocket includes a first sea...