ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,955, issued on April 14, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).
"Devices and methods for forming rivet joints" was invented by Hector Ramirez (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inserting a fastener into a workpiece includes positioning the workpiece with at least two sheets of material between a die and a head of a fastening system. The workpiece has a first fastening site, a second fastening site, and a third fastening site. The second fastening site is between the first fastening site and the third fastening site. A passage of the head is aligned with the second fastening site. A bottommost surface o...