US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 26 for "Cutting tool, tool system and cutting information transmission method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,718, issued on May 26, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cutting tool, tool system and cutting information transmission method" was invented by Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool includes: a cutting section having a cutting edge; a sensor provided in the cutting section; and a communication unit provided in the cutting section. The communication unit transmits, to a processing device provided outside the cutting tool, measurement information relating to measurement results of the sensor and including serial numbers corresponding to the measurement results aft...