US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 21 for "Cutting tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,059, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cutting tool" was invented by Masashi Harada (Osaka, Japan), Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoya Aoki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool includes a body portion having a bar shape extending from a first end, which is an end on a side where a cutting tip for cutting the workpiece is placed, to a second end, which is an end opposite to the first end, and a sensor unit arranged on a surface of the body portion. The sensor unit includes a first sensor arranged on the surface of the body portion to detect a first ph...