ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,332, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG (Reinach, Switzerland).
"Method and forming device for producing ring-shaped formed parts" was invented by Carsten Sieber (Basel, Switzerland) and Olivier Ritter (Village-Neuf, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an inner and an outer ring-shaped formed part from a blank includes the step of cup extrusion of the blank to form a cup having a drawn-out cup base and an adjoining stepless cup wall and the step of forming the cup wall in such a way that the formed cup wall includes an inner ring-shaped section and an adjoining outer ring-shaped secti...