US Patent Issued to HUNAN RARE EARTH METAL MATERIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 14 for "Aluminum scandium alloy target and method of manufacturing the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,040, issued on April 14, was assigned to HUNAN RARE EARTH METAL MATERIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Changsha, China).

"Aluminum scandium alloy target and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Pei Huang (Changsha, China), Meisong Huang (Changsha, China), Zhijian Wang (Changsha, China), Hua Liu (Changsha, China), Yuehua Deng (Changsha, China), Xiaobo Ma (Changsha, China), Kang Wen (Changsha, China) and Wei Liu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an aluminum scandium alloy target and a method of manufacturing the same. The method comprises: preparing metal aluminum and metal scandium with purities...