ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,743, issued on June 23, was assigned to AMAG ROLLING GMBH (Braunau am Inn-Ranshofen, Austria).

"Composite material and method for producing said composite material" was invented by Petra Morak (Ranshofen, Austria) and Gerhard Hanko (Simbach am Inn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material and method for producing said composite material are disclosed, with a support layer composed of a wrought aluminum alloy and with an external solder layer composed of an aluminum solder alloy provided on one or both flat sides of the support layer, wherein the solder layer has partially exposed silicon particles on its surface, w...