US Patent Issued to Autotech Engineering on April 22 for "Hot press forming apparatus and a method for hot press forming a blank" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,413, issued on April 22, was assigned to Autotech Engineering S.L. (Bizkaia, Spain).

"Hot press forming apparatus and a method for hot press forming a blank" was invented by Lars Sandberg (Lulea, Sweden), Joakim Innala (Lulea, Sweden) and Petter Ulfberg (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a hot press forming apparatus and a hot press forming apparatus (102; 202) for forming a blank (104), the hot press forming apparatus (102; 202) comprising a first die (106; 206) and a second die (108), wherein the first die (106; 206) has at least one die cavity (110; 210), and the second die (108) has at least one die protrus...