US Patent Issued to BERKENHOFF on Oct. 7 for "Wire electrode for spark-erosion cutting and method for producing said wire electrode" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,313, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BERKENHOFF GMBH (Heuchelheim, Germany).

"Wire electrode for spark-erosion cutting and method for producing said wire electrode" was invented by Tobias Nothe (Herborn, Germany), Bernd Barthel (Steffenberg, Germany) and Stefan Rink (Herborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a wire electrode for spark-erosion cutting, comprising a core (2), which has a metal or a metal alloy, and a sheath (3, 4, 6), which surrounds the core (2) and comprises one or more sheath layers (3, 4, 6), one of which comprises regions (3) having a morphology corresponding to block-like particles...