ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,576, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Linde AG (Munich).
"Method for producing a pipe fitting, in particular by weld overlay" was invented by Georg Wimmer (Tuessing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing a pipe fitting (10), for example a reduction piece, a pipe elbow or a branch, wherein a metallic material (11) is melted by heating, and wherein a plurality of material layers (12) is produced in a successive manner from the melted material (11), wherein the in each case produced material layer (12) is materially bonded to the in each case previous material layer (12), and wherein t...