ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,866, issued on April 21, was assigned to UNILIN BV (Wielsbeke, Belgium).
"Press element and method for manufacturing press elements" was invented by Bruno Vermeulen (Wielsbeke, Belgium), Laurent Meersseman (Mont de l'Enclus, Belgium) and Hans De Cock (Herzele, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Press element and a method for manufacturing a structured press element, wherein a heterogeneous mask is applied on a metallic base element, after which a surface treatment is carried out and the heterogeneous mask has a certain resistance to the surface treatment."
The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/060,33...