US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 1 for "Method for producing a motor vehicle rim made of an aluminum alloy for a wheel of a motor vehicle and corresponding motor vehicle rim" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,032, issued on July 1, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for producing a motor vehicle rim made of an aluminum alloy for a wheel of a motor vehicle and corresponding motor vehicle rim" was invented by Jaan Mattes Reiling (Sassenberg, Germany), Jan Gaugler (Neckarmuhlbach, Germany) and Marc Hummel (Guglingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a motor vehicle rim made of an aluminum alloy for a wheel of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle rim having a rim base limited on opposite sides by an outer horn and an inner horn, a hub with a central recess and a hole circle, and a rim center conne...