US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Nov. 11 for "Preparation method for additive manufacturing titanium alloys" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,977, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Liaoning, China).

"Preparation method for additive manufacturing titanium alloys" was invented by Zhefeng Zhang (Liaoning, China), Zhan Qu (Liaoning, China), Zhenjun Zhang (Liaoning, China) and Rui Liu (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method for additive manufacturing titanium alloys involves coupling control is performed for the microstructure and the microvoids in the material to achieve the synchronous optimization of both. Firstly, the microvoids in the printed material are eliminated by printing and hot ...