ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,732, issued on July 8, was assigned to GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH (Radevormwald, Germany).
"Method for producing a sintered part" was invented by Rainer Schmitt (Wachtberg, Germany), Christian Siegert (Ahrweiler, Germany), Maurits van de Velde (Bornheim, Germany) and Stefan Tiller (Sankt Augustin, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a sintered part, having at least the following steps: a) providing a sintered part, said sintered part having a first end face, a second end face arranged at a distance from the first end face in an axial direction, and a circumferential surface between the end faces; b) a...