US Patent Issued to Central South University on Nov. 4 for "Method for forming gourd petal component using electric pulse creep aging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,287, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Central South University (Changsha, China).

"Method for forming gourd petal component using electric pulse creep aging" was invented by Lihua Zhan (Changsha, China), Shengmeng Hui (Changsha, China) and Yongqian Xu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a gourd petal component is provided. The method includes obtaining a sheet material with M installation ends. Second wires are divided into M groups based on a cross-sectional area of each installation end. The sheet material is installed on a flexible mold. First wires and the second wires are connected to the sheet m...