US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 3 for "Method, apparatus and program for determining construction data of the deep-drawing tool geometry by means of hybrid springback compensation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,912, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method, apparatus and program for determining construction data of the deep-drawing tool geometry by means of hybrid springback compensation" was invented by Michael Fleischer (Munich) and Ingo Heinle (Inzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for determining construction data for producing a forming die are provided. Using an electronic computing device, a simulation is carried out that includes moving die parts of a die toward each other to a closed position, reshaping a workpiece reshaping a workpiece from an initial sta...