ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,055, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Production method for a shape-imparting tool part of a forming tool" was invented by Raphael Koch (Odenthal, Germany), Maik Broda (Wurselen, Germany), Ferat Oezkan (Ubach-Palenberg, Germany) and Ilya Popov (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a tool part of a forming tool. The method includes forming a tool element of the tool part having a shape-imparting operating face and at least one first cooling duct for cooling a liquid using an additive manufacturing machine. The first cooling duct has at least one rec...