US Patent Issued to Betek on Sept. 15 for "Process for processing hard metal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,766, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Betek GmbH & Co. KG (Aichhalden, Germany).

"Process for processing hard metal" was invented by Matthias Philipp (Rottweil, Germany), Alexander Haller (Rottenburg, Germany), Tobias Hilgert (Schramberg, Germany), Manuel Much (Schramberg, Germany) and David Huber (Schramberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for processing hard metal, wherein the hard metal is alloyed with a low-melting alloy metal in a reaction space of a reactor and converted into a vapor phase in the presence of inert gas. The vapor phase is at least partially condensed in a condensati...