US Patent Issued to SMS group on May 12 for "Method for producing a thread on at least one end of at least one metal tube and thread-cutting facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,297, issued on May 12, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for producing a thread on at least one end of at least one metal tube and thread-cutting facility" was invented by Jochen Schmitz (Wassenberg, Germany), Frank D'Hone (Cologne, Germany), Tim Kuppers (Nettetal, Germany) and Helge Dahndel (Monchengladbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a thread on at least one end of at least one metal tube (3) by machining the metal tube (3) in at least one CNC-controlled machine tool (2) comprises an optical measurement of the thread during the thread-cutting process and/or following the...