ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,168, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SCHOCK GMBH (Regen, Germany).
"Casting in the form of a sink" was invented by Alois Probst (Regen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting in the form of a sink, including a basin having a base, a rear wall, a front wall and two interconnecting side walls, and also a circumferential rim that extends to the side of the basin and consists of flat rim sections that extend in a straight line from the lateral edges of the rear wall, the side walls and the front wall. The sink is composed of a composite material including a cured polymeric binder and filler particles intercalated therein. A sk...