US Patent Issued to MATERION on Feb. 24 for "Processes for making metal rings formed from beryllium-copper alloys" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,827, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MATERION Corp. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Processes for making metal rings formed from beryllium-copper alloys" was invented by Jeffrey M. Schirm (Perrysburg, Ohio), Christopher W. Damschroder (Elmore, Ohio), Edward B. Longenberger (Perrysburg, Ohio) and Jeffrey A. McBride (Luckey, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes are disclosed for forming beryllium-copper metal rings having a fine and uniform grain structure. A raw BeCu casting is pre-forged and turned to form a BeCu billet. The BeCu billet is subjected to various heat treatment and cooling cycles to obtain/maintain combinations o...