US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on June 30 for "Component, in particular for a vehicle, and method for producing such a component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,859, issued on June 30, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Component, in particular for a vehicle, and method for producing such a component" was invented by Robert Behr (Wernau, Germany), Bernd Schietinger (Esslingen, Germany) and Juergen Weber (Besigheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component includes a sub-region, where the component is produced at least in the sub-region by an additive manufacturing process. The sub-region is produced from an aluminum alloy which has 12% by weight to 40% by weight silicon, 0.3% by weight to 4% by weight copper, 0.2% by weight to 0.7% by weight magnesium, at...