US Patent Issued to WOODWELDING on Oct. 21 for "Method for securing a second object to a first object" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,690, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WOODWELDING AG (Stansstad, Switzerland).

"Method for securing a second object to a first object" was invented by Jorg Mayer (Niederlenz, Switzerland), Joakim Kvist (Nidau, Switzerland), Philipp Bernhard (Thun, Switzerland), Laurent Torriani (Lamboing, Switzerland), Mario Weiss (Diessbach bei Buren, Switzerland), Antonino Lanci (Bern, Switzerland), Martin Sigrist (Bern, Switzerland), Hannes Merz (Olten, Switzerland) and Samuel Malzach (Evilard, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mechanically securing a first object to a second object, wherein the first object has a thermoplas...