ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,948, issued on June 9, was assigned to Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method for producing an electromagnet" was invented by Patrick Herrmann (Pfaffenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electromagnet from a metal core and at least one metal wire is disclosed and may include joining a plurality of metal plates into the metal core by packing and winding at least one metal wire around the assembled metal core. Each metal plate may include plastically shaped areas and the plastically shaped areas of the metal plate may be connected by force-locking and/or form-fitting to the plastically shaped area of ...