ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,088, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micro-LAM Inc. (Portage, Mich.).
"Laser-transmitting tooling" was invented by Deepak V M Ravindra (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Sai Kumar Kode (Kalamazoo, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-transmitting machining tool is disclosed. The laser-transmitting machining tool has a plurality of faces including an entrance face, a rake face, a flank face connected to the rake face, a rake side face extending between the entrance face and the rake face, and a flank side face extending between the entrance face and the flank face. The connection of the rake face to the flank face defines a cutting edg...