US Patent Issued to Ford Motor on June 3 for "Controllable and adjustable stamping draw bead with reverse bead geometry" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,831, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Controllable and adjustable stamping draw bead with reverse bead geometry" was invented by Evangelos Liasi (Royal Oak, Mich.), Liang Huang (Troy, Mich.), Rudolf Gerich (Macomb Township, Mich.), Eric Frevik (Dearborn, Mich.), Christian Richard Genereux (Brighton, Mich.) and Keith Zobay (Kenockee, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forming die includes a first die component with a male bead and a second die component with a female bead. The male bead and the female bead form a bead with a reverse bead geometry with the male bead having a groove and the female ...