ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,086, issued on April 8, was assigned to POGGIPOLINI S.P.A. (San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy).
"Method and plant for the fast manufacturing of fasteners" was invented by Michele Poggipolini (San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a plant for manufacturing fasteners, in particular screws, along an automated production line; the method comprising the following steps: feeding the raw material made of titanium; heating the raw material to a predefined temperature; cutting one or more pieces of a predefined length, in succession, from the heated raw material; deforming plastically each piece by means of one o...