US Patent Issued to SIEGFRIED HOFMANN on May 27 for "Mold for processing expandable or expanded plastic particles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,583, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIEGFRIED HOFMANN GMBH (Lichtenfels, Germany).

"Mold for processing expandable or expanded plastic particles" was invented by Andre Rauscher (Lichtenfels, Germany), Jonas Beck (Lichtenfels, Germany), Rene Hubert (Lichtenfels, Germany) and Philipp Platsch (Lichtenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mold for processing expandable or expanded plastic particles for producing a multi-component particle foam component, that includes a mold cavity delimited by mold walls, having at least one mold element, which in particular is slide-like or slide-shaped, wherein the at least one mold element ...