ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,587, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FELSS Systems GmbH (Koenigsbach-Stein, Germany).

"Devices and method for shaping a tubular hollow element" was invented by Jean-Marc Scheer (Minversheim, France), Nadezda Missal (Schwieberdingen, Germany), Serjosha Heinrichs (Oberderdingen, Germany), Sascha Voegele (Kaempfelbach, Germany) and Max Olaf Jandt (Keltern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for forming a tubular hollow body has a forming die, a mandrel and a forming drive with a die drive. Die profile projections arranged on the outer side of a hollow body wall and mandrel profile intermediate spaces arranged on the in...