US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for spingback compensation in bend forming processes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,816, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for spingback compensation in bend forming processes" was invented by Lu Huang (Troy, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.), Bradley J Blaski (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Joshua Lee Solomon (Berkley, Mich.) and Blair E Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for bending a material to a target resultant bending parameter using a bend forming tool are disclosed. The systems and methods receive values for parameters of properties of the material and of a bending process to be performed by the bend ...