US Patent Issued to Diamond Innovations on Dec. 23 for "Cubic boron nitride particle population with highly-etched particle surface and high toughness index" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,363, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Diamond Innovations Inc. (Worthington, Ohio).

"Cubic boron nitride particle population with highly-etched particle surface and high toughness index" was invented by Adamos Dalis (Worthington, Ohio), Timothy Dumm (Westerville, Ohio) and Kai Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cubic boron nitride particle population having highly-etched surfaces and a high toughness index is produced by blending a reactive metal powder with a plurality of cubic boron nitride particles to form a blended mixture. The blended mixture is compressed to form a compressed mixture. The compressed mixt...