US Patent Issued to HERAEUS PRECIOUS METALS on Aug. 19 for "Method for producing noble metal meshes on flatbed knitting machines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,062, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HERAEUS PRECIOUS METALS GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Method for producing noble metal meshes on flatbed knitting machines" was invented by Pascal Hirschel (Hanau, Germany), Hendrik Spod (Hanau, Germany) and Verena Wald (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a two-layer noble metal mesh on a flatbed knitting machine which has a first and a second needle bed. The method comprises: providing at least one wire containing noble metal; and knitting the noble metal mesh. The first and second layers of the noble metal mesh are knitted simultaneously on the first and s...