US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 21 for "Method for tracing forged parts over the entire production process, in particular from the forging process, via sandblasting and heat treatment, to mechanical processing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,991, issued on April 21, was assigned to SMS group GMBH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for tracing forged parts over the entire production process, in particular from the forging process, via sandblasting and heat treatment, to mechanical processing" was invented by Martin Gerhard Scholles (Mainz, Germany), Axel Rossbach (Korschenbroich, Germany) and Frank Viegen (Monchengladbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracing forged parts over their production process includes: capturing process parameters of a forging process; marking a workpiece with a first identifier; storing the captured process parameters and the first identi...