US Patent Issued to WAFIOS on March 18 for "Method and system of producing coil springs" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,356, issued on March 18, was assigned to WAFIOS AG (Reutlingen, Germany).

"Method and system of producing coil springs" was invented by Bernd Walz (Pfullingen, Germany), Frank Weiblen (Metzingen, Germany), Stefan Fries (Reutlingen, Germany), Michael Sosnowski (Reutlingen, Germany) and Felix Meyer (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision-proof spring transfer takes place in the process, which comprises a continuous transfer of coil springs from the pipeline through an exit opening of the pipeline into assigned spring receptacles, and an automatic prevention of any re-entry of coil springs that have passed throu...