ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,312, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Methodologies for formulating compositions, including aluminum alloys with high-temperature strength" was invented by Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi (Pittsburgh), Anastasios John Hart (Waban, Mass.) and Greg Olson (Riverwoods, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum alloy with high strength at high temperature includes an aluminum matrix with over 80 molar % aluminum and L12 precipitate phases having a maximum dimension no greater than 20 nm in the aluminum matrix. The L12 precipitate phases have a formula of Al3M, wherein M in ...