US Patent Issued to Alloy Enterprises on Dec. 16 for "Homogenizing heterogeneous foils for light alloy metal parts" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,673, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alloy Enterprises Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Homogenizing heterogeneous foils for light alloy metal parts" was invented by Nicholas Mykulowycz (Boxford, Mass.), Alison Forsyth (Somerville, Mass.), Alan Lai (Cambridge, Mass.) and Lyle Cheatham (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the manufacturing of an object. The method includes receiving a desired alloy composition for the object, depositing a plurality of foils in a stack to form the object, applying heat to the stack at a first temperature to bond the plurality of foils to each other, and applying heat to the stack...