US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 6 for "Formation of metal articles using localized sonication" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,338, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Formation of metal articles using localized sonication" was invented by Aashish Rohatgi (Richland, Wash.), Jon L. Helgeland (Richland, Wash.), Jens T. Darsell (Richland, Wash.), Mert Efe (West Richland, Wash.), Naveen K. Karri (Richland, Wash.) and Katherine E. Rader (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein that include placing an amount of liquid metal into a container and applying sound energy at one or more locations of the container while the metal cools. Articles can be formed that include a bulk regi...