US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on May 19 for "Locking device formed of thermally adaptive multi-metallic material and a thermoelectric junction and method of manufacturing the same" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,412, issued on May 19, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Locking device formed of thermally adaptive multi-metallic material and a thermoelectric junction and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.) and Brent J. Merritt (Southwick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device having: a composition gradient defining a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a second coefficient of thermal expansion that differs from the first coefficient of thermal expansion; and a thermoelectric junction operationally coupled to the composition gradient, wherein the com...