US Patent Issued to intellifast on Sept. 9 for "Method for producing load-indicating connection components, and corresponding load-indicating connection component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,511, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to intellifast GmbH (Speyer, Germany).

"Method for producing load-indicating connection components, and corresponding load-indicating connection component" was invented by Gert Horing (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for producing load-indicating connection components. A connection element (10) and a piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer (20) are provided and interconnected. The method comprises forming a layer structure on the surface (14) of the connection element (10). The layer structure comprises, in this order, proceeding from the surface (...