US Patent Issued to Salzgitter Europlatinen on Oct. 21 for "Method for producing a coated tailored welded blank by means of laser-beam welding or hybrid laser/gas-metal-arc welding and filler wire and use thereof for this purpose" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,556, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH (Salzgitter, Germany).

"Method for producing a coated tailored welded blank by means of laser-beam welding or hybrid laser/gas-metal-arc welding and filler wire and use thereof for this purpose" was invented by Hans-Christian Schmale (Braunschweig, Germany), Matthias Hofemann (Wolfenbuttel, Germany), Andre Kroff (Burgdorf, Germany), Joachim Schottler (Braunschweig, Germany) and Manuel Maikranz-Valentin (Baunatal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tailored welded blank produced from at least two blank parts, where at least one is a press-hardenable manganese-b...