US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 14 for "Operating method for a machine tool, computer program product, control unit and machine tool" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,163, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Operating method for a machine tool, computer program product, control unit and machine tool" was invented by Jochen Bretschneider (Owingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product, a control unit, a machine tool and method for operating a machine tool includes providing a control command set for a tool, providing an actual contour of the workpiece, determining a first material entrance point of the tool into the workpiece and generating a first positioning command for an approach to the first material entrance point, wherein the first positioning...