US Patent Issued to Matthews International on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for hybrid sand casting" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,002, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Matthews International Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for hybrid sand casting" was invented by Yurij F. Wowczuk (Pittsburgh), Jake A. Vargo (Washington, Pa.), Bernard A. Kuhn Jr. (Baden, Pa.) and Gregory Allen Geers (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid method of casting a metal product is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a product design, creating a mold insert based on the product design, creating a mold base based on the product design, assembling the mold insert with the mold base to form an assembled mold, casting the metal product with the assembled mold, a...