US Patent Issued to Okuma on Oct. 6 for "Tool management system and tool management device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,388, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Okuma Corp. (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

"Tool management system and tool management device" was invented by Shinya Noguchi (Niwa-Gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool management system includes a tool management device and an information input and output terminal. The tool management device manages an assembled tool including a tool holder and a cutting tool mounted on the tool holder. The information input and output terminal is configured to input and output data to/from the tool management device. The tool management device includes a tool information database and a data retrieval unit. The ...