US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on April 7 for "Metal matrix composite material and method" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,534, issued on April 7, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Metal matrix composite material and method" was invented by Rajib Kalsar (Richland, Wash.), Vineet V. Joshi (Richland, Wash.), Darrell R. Herling (Kennewick, Wash.), Xiaolong Ma (Kowloon, China), Jens T. Darsell (Richland, Wash.), Benjamin J. Schuessler (Kennewick, Wash.) and Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal matrix composite material and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the metal matrix composite material includes ceramic particles distributed in multiple phases. In selected examples, the me...