ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,648, issued on April 7, was assigned to Reishauer AG (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

"Dressing tool and method for the production thereof" was invented by Marin Pavlovic (Bruttisellen, Switzerland), Sergio Manuel Monteiro Ferreira (Egg, Switzerland) and Christoph Rudolf (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dressing tool which has profiled elements arranged coaxially with one another and which are each provided with a profile form, which is tapered or the like in its axial cross-section and has working surfaces provided with hard-material particles. The profiled elements are delimited at their outer circumference by at...