ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,395, issued on July 7, was assigned to REISHAUER AG (Wallisellen, Switzerland).

"Conditioning of a superabrasive grinding tool" was invented by Lars Wendt (Scherzingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of machining workpieces in a gear grinding machine with a grinding tool having vitrified-bonded abrasive grains made of a superabrasive material. The grinding tool is first dressed. Subsequently, the dressed grinding tool is conditioned such that a desired wear condition is produced. Thereafter, pre-toothed workpieces are machined using the dressed and conditioned grinding tool. Conditioning prevents undesirable gr...