US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Feb. 17 for "Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion and extrusion processes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,946, issued on Feb. 17, 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.), Jens T. Darsell (West Richland, Wash.), MD. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.), Brandon Scott Taysom (West Richland, Wash.), Tianhao Wang (Richland, Wash.), Darrell R. Herling (Kennewick, Wash.) and Xiao Li (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a shear-assisted extruded material from a powder billet is provided, the method comprising providing a billet of material in substantially...