US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on July 14 for "Powder satellite-reduction apparatus and method for gas atomization process" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,859, issued on July 14, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Powder satellite-reduction apparatus and method for gas atomization process" was invented by Iver E. Anderson (Ames, Iowa), Jordan A. Tiarks (Ames, Iowa), Timothy E. Prost (Ames, Iowa), Bo Kong (Ames, Iowa), Emma H. White (Ames, Iowa), Trevor M. Riedemann (Ames, Iowa), Eric J. Deaton (Ames, Iowa), Ross Anderson (Ames, Iowa), David Byrd (Ames, Iowa) and Franz Hugolino Hernandez Gaitan (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The broad applicability of at least certain aspects of the present invention derives from the ability to dete...