US Patent Issued to SIKA TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Method of producing a reinforcement element" (Swiss, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,555, issued on June 24, was assigned to SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Method of producing a reinforcement element" was invented by Michael Meier (Niederrohrdorf, Switzerland), Hakim Benouali (Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium), Denis Souvay (Illkirch, France) and Loic Zingraff (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a reinforcement element for reinforcing a structural element in a motor vehicle includes the following steps: pultruding a support element having a longitudinal axis that extends, when in use, along a longitudinal axis of the structural element, the support element having a pluralit...