ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,010, issued on June 3, was assigned to HERRMANN ULTRASCHALLTECHNIK GMBH & Co. KG (Karlsbad, Germany).
"Converter with an integrated bolt" was invented by Ulrich Vogler (Uhldingen-Muhlhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter having a converter base part, a bolt connected to the converter base part, a tensioning element and at least one piezo element with a through-opening, the bolt penetrating the through-opening and the tensioning element tensioning the at least one piezo element in the direction of the converter base part, wherein that the bolt is connected to the converter base part in a material bond."
The patent ...