ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,023, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG (Kiel, Germany).
"Method for repairing a component by heat treating" was invented by Ole Frydek (Kiel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a method for repairing a component, in particular a component of an internal combustion engine, by heat treating, in particular tempering. The method comprises a step of obtaining a material specific reference parameter which has been determined based on at least one reference test carried out on a reference sample made of the same material as the component to be heat treated, wherein the...