US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for direct deposition of thixotropic alloys" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,659, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for direct deposition of thixotropic alloys" was invented by Sergey Mironets (Burlington, Canada), Thomas J. Martin (East Hampton, Conn.) and Alexander Staroselsky (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise: placing a probe in a molten metal melt comprising a thixotropic metal alloy; injecting a gas into the molten metal melt to form a saturated slurry, the saturated slurry being at a temperature above a liquidus temperature of the thixotropic metal alloy after injecting the gas; removing the probe from the molten metal...