US Patent Issued to Automation Press and Tooling AP & T on Oct. 7 for "Intermediate heating station with support projections on lower mask" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,386, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Automation Press and Tooling AP & T AB (Tranemo, Sweden).

"Intermediate heating station with support projections on lower mask" was invented by Bjorn Wenzel (Ulricehamn, Sweden), Drazen Klint (Ulricehamn, Sweden) and Marcus Leander (Blidsberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating station (1) for heating a metal sheet blank (50) and a system comprising such a heating station (1), is herein disclosed. In particular, the heating station comprises lower or upper heating elements (11) arranged in a heating chamber (10) below a metal sheet blank (50) when in a heating position, and configure...