US Patent Issued to WAFIOS on July 21 for "Forming machine with a plurality of workstations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,088, issued on July 21, was assigned to WAFIOS AG (Reutlingen, Germany).

"Forming machine with a plurality of workstations" was invented by Stefan Fries (Reutlingen, Germany) and Bernd Walz (Pfullingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forming machine that produces formed parts of a complex design from straight workpieces from wire or tube includes a computerized numerical control unit; a plurality of workstations including a loading station, a first machining station downstream of the loading station, and at least one second machining station downstream of the first machining station, wherein at least two of the machining st...