US Patent Issued to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics on May 27 for "Method for precision forming by continuous free bending" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,424, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Nanjing, China).

"Method for precision forming by continuous free bending" was invented by Xunzhong Guo (Nanjing, China), Jie Tao (Nanjing, China), Cheng Cheng (Nanjing, China), Chunmei Liu (Nanjing, China), Hui Wang (Nanjing, China) and Wenbin Wei (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for precision forming by continuous free bending starts with establishing a correlation equation of a continuous axis f(x) to a bending radius R and determining a bending radius R at a real-time location in the axis. Based on the free bending te...