US Patent Issued to MAGNA INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Compressive stress forming systems and methods" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,486, issued on July 28, was assigned to MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC. (Aurora, Canada).

"Compressive stress forming systems and methods" was invented by Thomas Chartrand (Oxford, Mich.), Michael Bluemel (Flatz, Australia) and Peter Doczy (Eisenstadt, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to forming a metallic part to decrease residual stress and reduce springback behavior in the metallic part after forming. Target locations in the metallic part for excess material are determined based on electronic modelling prior to forming. The excess material in the target locations is configured to decrease residual s...