US Patent Issued to Brunel University London on March 31 for "Method for carbide dispersion strengthened high performance metallic materials" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,357, issued on March 31, was assigned to Brunel University London (Uxbridge Middlesex, Great Britain).

"Method for carbide dispersion strengthened high performance metallic materials" was invented by Hari Babu Nadendla (Uxbridge Middlesex, Great Britain) and Xinliang Yang (Uxbridge Middlesex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a mixture of a metal or metal alloy and (NbxTi1-x)C (where 0greater thanxless than equal to1) in which (NbxTi1-x)C in particulate form (either with or without metal powder) is formed into a preform and then if necessary added to the metal. The resulting (NbxTi1-x)C/metal mixture...