ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,222, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Murayoshi Gas Pressure Welding Industry Co. Ltd. (Okinawa, Japan).

"Reducing material for gas pressure welding and gas pressure welding method" was invented by Seiyu Murayoshi (Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a reducing material for gas pressure welding that enables attachment of a reducing material for gas pressure welding onto a tip portion of a material to be pressure-welded in a state where a gap between tip surfaces of respective materials to be pressure-welded is narrow when the reducing material for gas pressure welding is attached onto the tip portion of the fi...