ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,943, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Mobile machine tool and method for segmentally machining a component" was invented by Alexander Braun (Essen, Germany) and Rick Giesel (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile machine tool for segmentally machining, in situ, a component, in particular a component of a turbine, which is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The machine tool has a main body, a support element which is held on the main body so as to be movable about a C-axis along a circular-arc-shaped guide path, and a tool module which is held on the support e...