US Patent Issued to Comadur on March 11 for "Support frame for a method for sintering a body, in particular for watchmaking" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,384, issued on March 11, was assigned to Comadur SA (Le Locle, Switzerland).

"Support frame for a method for sintering a body, in particular for watchmaking" was invented by Denis Bubendorf (Bevaix, Switzerland), Pierry Vuille (Les Emibois, Switzerland), Damien Cartier (Besancon, France) and Paulo Arede (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support frame for a sintering step of a method for producing a part, in particular for watchmaking, from a green body having an initial shape, the body shrinking from the initial shape to a final shape during the sintering step, the support frame having at least one fac...