ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,081, issued on July 21, was assigned to Futaba Industrial Co. Ltd. (Okazaki, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing joined body" was invented by Norifumi Moritsugu (Okazaki, Japan) and Takaaki Uno (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a joined body including two plate-like portions, the method including forming a joint part that comprises at least a portion of each of the two plate-like portions and joins the two plate-like portions; and irradiating the joint part with a beam, thereby to perform laser welding. The joint part includes at least one folded part, the at least one folded part is a bent part ...