US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 16 for "Bent aluminum foam sandwich with delamination insert" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,806, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Bent aluminum foam sandwich with delamination insert" was invented by Ethan Edward Peel Hodge (Clawson, Mich.) and Johnny Brown (Port Huron, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include a bent aluminum foam sandwich having a delamination insert. An exemplary bent aluminum foam sandwich can include an inner sheet, an outer sheet having a through-hole, and a core between the inner sheet and the outer sheet. A delamination insert is positioned at a bending interface between the inner sheet and the outer sheet such that sidew...