US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on Feb. 10 for "Stamping tool with a sub pad within a forming steel and method of forming a panel from a sheet metal workpiece" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,818, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Stamping tool with a sub pad within a forming steel and method of forming a panel from a sheet metal workpiece" was invented by Robert Vaughn Degenhardt (Belleville, Mich.), Mark Broadworth (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Rudolf Gerich (Macomb Township, Mich.), Evangelos Liasi (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Christian Richard Genereux (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stamping tool includes a lower pad, upper pad, forming steel, and sub-pad. The lower pad includes a lower forming surface recessed in a first direction between a first lower pad surface and the...