US Patent Issued to TUBEX TUBENFABRIK WOLFSBERG on Oct. 28 for "Method for manufacturing an aluminium tube, a method for manufacturing an aluminium slug, an aluminium tube and an aluminium slug" (Austrian, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,995, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TUBEX TUBENFABRIK WOLFSBERG GMBH (St. Stefan, Austria).

"Method for manufacturing an aluminium tube, a method for manufacturing an aluminium slug, an aluminium tube and an aluminium slug" was invented by Thierry Bitout (Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic), Oliver Glitzner (Wilhelmsburg, Austria) and Alexander Wimmer (Weinburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an aluminium tube, including providing a slug of an aluminium alloy consisting of-less than98.4% by weight of Al, -0.10% by weight to 0.30% by weight of Si, -0.25% by weight to 0.45% by weight of Fe, -0.01% by ...