US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on June 30 for "Machine tool system with tool base and repositionable and relocatable workpiece frame" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,922, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Machine tool system with tool base and repositionable and relocatable workpiece frame" was invented by Rusty Garner (Indianapolis), Monica Munoz (Indianapolis) and Damon Ward (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool system includes a workpiece, a machine, and a workpiece frame. The workpiece frame is repositionable and relocatable on the machine in at least two different orientations to support the workpiece in the at least two different orientations during modification of the workpiece so that different sides of the workpiece are modified w...