US Patent Issued to Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt on March 25 for "Tool apparatus for producing a composite material component part and method for producing a component part from a composite material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,744, issued on March 25, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Cologne, Germany).

"Tool apparatus for producing a composite material component part and method for producing a component part from a composite material" was invented by Marvin Schneider (Herrenberg, Germany) and Markus Kaden (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a tool apparatus for producing a composite material component part, comprising a forming tool having a contact region for a workpiece, wherein the forming tool is made, in at least a portion thereof, of an electrically conductive material; and an i...