US Patent Issued to JIMEI UNIVERSITY on June 16 for "Method for friction stir processing for the end surface of age-hardening aluminum alloy plates" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,253, issued on June 16, was assigned to JIMEI UNIVERSITY (Xiamen City, China).

"Method for friction stir processing for the end surface of age-hardening aluminum alloy plates" was invented by Wenhui Liu (Xiamen, China), Lingji Zhang (Xiamen, China), Qiuping Yi (Xiamen, China), Yufeng Song (Xiamen, China), Hao Huang (Xiamen, China), Fan Ye (Xiamen, China) and Jianfeng Cao (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for friction stir processing of an end surface of an age-hardening aluminum alloy plate is provided, in which a solid-solution state age-hardening aluminum alloy plate is butt-joined to and clamped with a dissimi...