US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Connecting element, component of a composite material and method for producing a component from a composite material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,065, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Connecting element, component of a composite material and method for producing a component from a composite material" was invented by Thomas Baranowski (Wurselen, Germany), Maik Broda (Wurselen, Germany), Markus Franzen (Stolberg, Germany) and Pascal Rebmann (Weilerswist, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component of a composite material is described. The component includes a connecting element and at least one stabilizing member. The connecting element is configured to position the at least one stabilizing member during production of t...