US Patent Issued to Maiko Engineering on Oct. 20 for "Tool for forming coated sheet-metal blanks" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,581, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Maiko Engineering GmbH (Braunschweig, Germany).

"Tool for forming coated sheet-metal blanks" was invented by Klaus Warmbrunn (Braunschweig, Germany) and Marco Hein (Lagesbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a tool with a material layer on one or both sides, said tool having a cutting bell rigidly coupled to an upper forming punch and a drawing cushion coupled to a hold-down device, the upper forming punch and a lower forming punch being movable relative to one another to close the tool, and a first gap present between the cutting bell and the hold-down device...