US Patent Issued to Element Six (UK) on Sept. 16 for "Superhard constructions and methods of making same" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,761, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Superhard constructions and methods of making same" was invented by Nedret Can (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Rachael Fiona Ambury (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Tomasz Zbyszko Rybak (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Changzheng Ji (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A super hard polycrystalline construction has a first region comprising a body of thermally stable polycrystalline super hard material having an exposed surface forming a working surface, and a peripheral side edge, said polycrystalline super hard material co...