ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,048, issued on April 15, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP HOHENLIMBURG GMBH (Hagen, Germany) and THYSSENKRUPP AG (Essen, Germany).

"Method for producing a metal workpiece" was invented by Marcel Schulz (Hagen, Germany), Stefan Kmetsch (Iserlohn, Germany), Peter Manthey (Froendenberg, Germany) and Thomas Ewert (Hagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a desired metal workpiece (134), the method comprising: producing an elongate finished material (116; 222) by hot rolling, wherein a first data record (112) is assigned to the finished material (116; 222), wherein the finished material (116...