ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,958, issued on April 14, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Composite material, manufacturing method for composite material, and mold" was invented by Hiroshi Shiratori (Tokyo), Shuho Koseki (Tokyo), Shinsuke Ando (Tokyo), Kousuke Kuwabara (Tokyo) and Shinya Okamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material that is durable in a hot environment and easily produced. The composite material has an overlaid part comprising high-melting-point metal in at least a part on the surface of a low-melting-point alloy member having a melting point of 1600deg C. or lower. The overlaid part comprising high-melting-point metal...