ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,076, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for sintering a multicomponent object to be sintered, electric machine, and electric vehicle" was invented by Carsten Schuh (Baldham, Germany), Thomas Soller (Bayern, Germany) and Rolf Vollmer (Gersfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for sintering a multicomponent sinter product comprising: forming a first component consisting of a first material printed with one or more recesses for a second component; forming the second component consisting of a second material; inserting at least a portion of the second component into ...