US Patent Issued to RTX on March 31 for "In-situ grinding wheel topography, power monitoring, and feed/speed scheduling systems and methods" (Connecticut, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,459, issued on March 31, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"In-situ grinding wheel topography, power monitoring, and feed/speed scheduling systems and methods" was invented by Raja Krishnan Kountanya (Vernon, Conn.), Eric Fromerth (Bolton, Conn.), Donald J. Leclerc III (South Windsor, Conn.), Demetrios Koukouves (Newington, Conn.), Changsheng Guo (South Windsor, Conn.) and Alex James Sardo (Billings, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feed rate scheduling methods include measuring a topography of a grinding wheel of a machine tool, calculating a topography parameter using the topography, and calculating a feed rate sc...