US Patent Issued to Mazak on May 26 for "Machine tool" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,710, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mazak Corp. (Florence, Ky.).

"Machine tool" was invented by Donald Thomas Streck (Florence, Ky.) and Lem Linder (Florence, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of preparing a machine tool to machine a workpiece. The machine tool includes an artifact in the machine tool and a probe mounted to a head of the machine tool. The method includes determining a tool offset value for a tool by moving the probe and the tool relative to one another to bring the probe and the tool into contact with one another. Prior to determining the tool offset value, the method includes calibrating t...