US Patent Issued to Anheuser-Busch on Dec. 2 for "Reducing material usage and plastic-deformation steps in the manufacture of aluminum containers" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,469, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Anheuser-Busch LLC (St. Louis).

"Reducing material usage and plastic-deformation steps in the manufacture of aluminum containers" was invented by Brad Deuser (St. Louis), Scott Kellerman (St. Louis), Mark Schremmer (St. Louis), Willie Daies (St. Louis) and Craig Buschkoetter (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process of making an aluminum bottle, the process including: obtaining sheet aluminum, the sheet aluminum having a difference between ultimate tensile strength and yield strength between 3.31 thousand pounds per square inch (ksi) and 8.0 ksi, and the sheet aluminum havin...