ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,440, issued on March 17, was assigned to HADLEY INDUSTRIES OVERSEAS HOLDINGS LTD. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Sheet material forming" was invented by Michael Castellucci (Birmingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A formed sheet metal material and methods, tools and apparatus for forming the sheet metal material in which a pattern of projections and depressions are cold worked in a first portion and, simultaneously, indicia is embossed in a second portion of the sheet material. The cold worked portion is formed with the projections and depressions configured and distributed such that lines drawn on a surface of the f...