US Patent Issued on Sept. 1 for "Superplastic forming machine and a method of superplastic forming" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,337, issued on Sept. 1.

"Superplastic forming machine and a method of superplastic forming" was invented by Barry Richardson (West Yorkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superplastic forming machine including first and second parallel spaced apart platens, each arranged in a plane normal to a displacement axis; a first displacement mechanism connected to the first platen and configured to displace the first platen along the displacement axis; a locking mechanism which can be configured in a locked configuration in which the first locking mechanism prevents displacement of the first platen along the displacement axi...