US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on April 14 for "Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion and extrusion processes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,949, issued on April 14, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion and extrusion processes" was invented by Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.), Darrell R. Herling (Kennewick, Wash.), Xiao Li (Richland, Wash.), Md. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.), Brandon Scott Taysom (West Richland, Wash.) and Glenn J. Grant (Benton City, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shear-assisted extrusion processes for forming extrusions of a desired composition from a feedstock material are provided. The processes can include applying a rotational shearing force and an a...