US Patent Issued to YAMAZAKI MAZAK on June 30 for "Combined machining apparatus, method to perform cutting and friction stir welding, and computer readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,907, issued on June 30, was assigned to YAMAZAKI MAZAK Corp. (Niwa-gun, Japan).

"Combined machining apparatus, method to perform cutting and friction stir welding, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Eiji Matsubara (Niwa-gun, Japan), Susumu Kakiuchi (Niwa-gun, Japan), Masayasu Minatani (Niwa-gun, Japan) and Yoshihiko Fujiwara (Niwa-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined machining apparatus includes a spindle to which a cutting tool and a friction stir welding tool are attachable. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the combine...