ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,043, issued on June 3, was assigned to voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Method for connecting sheet metal parts in order to form lamination stacks" was invented by Ronald Fluch (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for connecting sheet metal parts in order to form lamination stacks. In order to reproducibly manufacture geometrically accurate lamination stacks, it is proposed for the first and/or second coating to be provided with a separating layer, which contains a reaction accelerator for the adhesive of the first coating and contains a release agent in order to thus facilitate the division of the...