US Patent Issued to Seco Tools on Sept. 1 for "Face milling cutter" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,215, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Seco Tools AB (Fagersta, Sweden).

"Face milling cutter" was invented by Rickard Jansson (Fagersta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face milling cutter includes a tool body, several primary cutting inserts mounted in a respective primary insert seat, a reference insert mounted in a reference insert seat, and a finishing insert mounted in a finishing insert seat. The reference and primary cutting inserts are configured to be detachably mounted in their insert seats in a fixed position as seen in the axial direction of the tool body. The reference insert seat is arranged more forwardly in ...