ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,984, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION LLC (Southfield, Mich.) and FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH (Neuhaus-Schierschnitz, Germany).

"Spark plug electrode having thermally resilient joint and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Nicholas Ritsema (Brighton, Mich.), Hans Lipp (White Lake, Mich.) and Daniel Konig (Rodental, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spark plug electrode with an electrode tip formed on an electrode base using an additive manufacturing process, such as a powder bed fusion technique. The spark plug electrode includes an electrode base, an electrode tip that is formed on the e...