US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Method for producing an electrical sheet for an electric machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,462, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for producing an electrical sheet for an electric machine" was invented by Raphael Koch (Odenthal, Germany) and Viktor Haeuser (Burscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical sheet includes an electrical sheet main body produced by additive manufacturing (a 3D screen printing method) from at least a first and a second material. The first and second materials have magnetic properties which differ from one another, and first and second domains are formed in the electrical sheet main body from the first and second materials...