ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,378, issued on May 13, was assigned to POINT ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Asan-si, South Korea).
"Method of manufacturing metal product and mold used therefor" was invented by Bum Mo Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Ho Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sung Hyun Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a method of manufacturing a metal product that uses an anodic aluminum oxide film and a patternable material together, in which a space where the metal product is manufactured is formed by the patternable material and the anodic aluminum oxide film provides structural support to the patternable material; and...