ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,057, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Method for producing a base plate" was invented by Marco Rasel (Meschede, Germany) and Elvis Keli (Bad Sassendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises producing a base plate, wherein producing the base plate comprises forming a layer of a metallic material, and forming at least one first area in the layer of metallic material, wherein forming the at least one first area either comprises locally deforming the layer of metallic material, or locally inducing stress into the layer of metallic material, or both such that a deflectio...