US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Nov. 25 for "Component, in particular for a vehicle, and method for producing such a component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,185, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Component, in particular for a vehicle, and method for producing such a component" was invented by Robert Behr (Wernau, Germany), Bernd Schietinger (Esslingen, Germany) and Juergen Weber (Besigheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a component includes providing a powder or a wire where the powder or the wire is formed from an aluminum alloy of 12% by weight to 40% by weight silicon, 0.3% by weight to 4% by weight copper, 0.2% by weight to 0.7% by weight magnesium, at most 1% by weight iron, at most 0.5% by weight zircon...