US Patent Issued to Sandvik Machining Solutions on Feb. 17 for "Method for producing a tool part and such a tool part" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,948, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandvik Machining Solutions AB (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Method for producing a tool part and such a tool part" was invented by Per Viklund (Sandviken, Sweden) and Anders Ohlsson (Sandviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a metal cutting tool component and a metal cutting tool component. The method includes the step of producing a front module having a main body and a front module interface at a rear end thereof, providing an intermediate element and building, using an additive manufacturing process, the main body on the build surface of the intermediate element. Furth...