ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,600, issued on April 7, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Method of controllably reducing oxygen content, and preparing titanium metal powder and Ti6A14V alloy powder" was invented by Ying Zhang (Beijing), Shili Zheng (Beijing), Taotao Cai (Beijing) and Yi Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of controllably reducing an oxygen content, a method of preparing titanium metal powder, and a method of preparing Ti6Al4V alloy powder. The method of controllably reducing an oxygen content can accurately control the removal amount of oxygen in titanium oxide...