ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,183, issued on July 21, was assigned to ElringKlinger AG (Dettingen, Germany).
"Component, method for producing a component, and assembly" was invented by Robert Witzgall (Reutlingen, Germany) and Harri Dittmar (Grunenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The aim of the invention is to provide a particularly planar component that is as simple as possible to produce and has an optimized stability. In order to achieve said aim, a component is proposed which comprises or is formed from a polymer matrix material and at least one non-compressible filler, wherein an average proportion of the at least one non-compressible filler is p...