ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,250, issued on June 16, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).
"Method for producing a welded metal blank and thus obtained welded metal blank" was invented by Wolfram Ehling (Ghent, Belgium) and Niko Van Der Borght (Herent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a welded metal blank (16) includes cutting a first initial metal sheet (1) and a second initial metal sheet (3) from a first and second metal strip (4); joining the first and second initial metal sheets (1,3) by welding so as to obtain an initial welded metal blank (9), the initial welded metal blank (9) comprising a weld joint (10) joining the fi...