US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Methods of producing composite vehicle braking components including aluminum alloys" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,274, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Methods of producing composite vehicle braking components including aluminum alloys" was invented by Zhongyi Liu (Troy, Mich.), Heewook Lee (Oakland Township, Mich.), Anil K. Sachdev (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Tyson Whittier Brown (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Ratandeep Singh Kukreja (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a brake rotor or brake drum having a composite structure includes casting an aluminum alloy to form a core of the brake rotor or brake drum, the core defining a core surface, depositing a high entro...