ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,637, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Coil and method and tool for producing coil" was invented by Franz-Josef Wostmann (Bremen, Germany), Michael Heuser (Bremen, Germany), Matthias Busse (Bremen, Germany) and Lukas Stumm (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a coil includes casting; a semi-finished product in a cavity of a casting tool and the coil is formed following a demolding of the semi-finished product by shaping this semi-finished product, wherein the form of the semi-finished product may be derived from a shape ...