ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,225, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG (Duisburg, Germany).

"Method for producing an electromagnetic component for an electric machine" was invented by Tobias Lewe (Munster, Germany), Karsten Machalitza (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Volker Kamen (Herne, Germany) and Marco Tietz (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electromagnetic component for an electric machine is provided. The method includes providing a metal sheet as a starting material; punching out a number of lamellae from the metal sheet; heat-treating the lamellae; and joining the heat-treated lamell...