US Patent Issued to Central South University on Jan. 20 for "Composite forming method and device combining electric pulse creep aging with laser peening" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,130, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Central South University (Changsha, China).

"Composite forming method and device combining electric pulse creep aging with laser peening" was invented by Lihua Zhan (Changsha, China), Haobo Ren (Changsha, China), Yongqian Xu (Changsha, China) and Tinghao Li (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite forming method and device combining electric pulse creep aging with laser peening are provided. The method includes modeling a ribbed integral panel, simulating a creep forming process of the panel, and determining and marking localized difficult-to-deform areas. The panel is then p...