ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,974, issued on July 22, was assigned to Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany).
"Production of a desired metal workpiece from a flat metal product" was invented by Ansgar Heitkamp (Krefeld, Germany), Tobias Ridder (Recklinghausen, Germany), Christian Odenhausen (Wesel, Germany), Daniel Overloper (Duisburg, Germany) and Robin Hayn (Duisburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes providing a computer model for producing the desired metal workpiece from the flat metal product in a processing procedure, the processing procedure including processing step on the flat metal product by a processing device, rece...