ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,818, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CALIX LTD.

"Method for the pyroprocessing of powders" was invented by Mark Geoffrey Sceats (Pymble, Australia), Adam Vincent (Pymble, Australia), Andrew Okely (Pymble, Australia), Matthew Boot-Handford (Pymble, Australia), Dabin Wang (Pymble, Australia), Lakshmi Vazhapully (Pymble, Australia) and Terrance Banks (Pymble, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for heating a powder material to induce a crystalline phase change in the grains of the particle comprising the steps of: a. preheating the powder from the high temperature streams generated from cooling the phase changed product...