US Patent Issued to Bollhoff Verbindungstechnik on July 14 for "Additively manufactured component out of metal or plastic material with a standard thread" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,042, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bollhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH (Bielefeld, Germany).

"Additively manufactured component out of metal or plastic material with a standard thread" was invented by Torsten Draht (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany), Michael Brand (Bad Driburg, Germany), Jorg Moehring (Paderborn, Germany), Franz Ferdinand Menne (Bad Lippspringe, Germany), Thorben Schiemann (Nienstadt, Germany) and Rami Hasso (Gutersloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component bond out of an additively manufactured component out of metal or plastic material having an inner receiving space that is open on at least one sid...