US Patent Issued to AUTOTECH ENGINEERING on June 3 for "Metal structural component comprising a higher-ductility patch and method of manufacture thereof" (French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,347, issued on June 3, was assigned to AUTOTECH ENGINEERING S.L. (Amorebieta-Extano, Spain).

"Metal structural component comprising a higher-ductility patch and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Quentin Benjamin Giraud Du Poyet (Argenteuil, France), Unai Lopategi Sanz (Bilbao, Spain), Amine Mermitte (Guyancourt, France) and Yoann Aurelien Rullaud (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing a metal structural component (E) for a vehicle, comprising the steps of a) providing a planar blank (B); b) cutting out the blank (B) to create an opening (A) having a first portion (Q) and wherein the fir...