US Patent Issued to SMS group on March 31 for "Method for automated pass schedule calculation in forging stepped shafts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,430, issued on March 31, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method for automated pass schedule calculation in forging stepped shafts" was invented by Frederik Knauf (Nideggen-Abenden, Germany) and Martin Wolfgarten (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic pass schedule calculation during forging, in particular radial forging, of stepped shafts made of metal workpieces, in particular steel, in a forging machine, preferably a radial forging machine with at least four forging tools arranged around the circumference of the workpiece, which are set up and adapted for simultaneous forging ...