US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Iowa State University Research Foundation on May 5 for "Oxidation resistant high conductivity copper alloys" (Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,124, issued on May 5, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.) and Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Oxidation resistant high conductivity copper alloys" was invented by Christian Gentry Miles Barr (Kansas City, Mo.) and Timothy Prost (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-alloyed copper powder was produced using gas atomization reaction synthesis, with the alloy preferably comprising Cu-0.3Zr-0.15Ag wt. %. The novel copper alloy improves the manufacturability of copper in powder bed fusion manufacturing processes by minimizing or avoiding the pri...