ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,050, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pyrotek Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).
"Multi-component flux" was invented by Michael Mastor (Spokane, Wash.), Viktor Slavicek (Brno, Czech Republic), Xin Zuo (Shenzhen City, China) and Vijay Hargude (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid metal flux comprised of compacted granules including (a) alkali chloride salt, (b) alkaline earth chloride salt and (c) at least one nitrate, carbonate, or sulfate salt and/or a fluoride containing salt."
The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 2021, under Application No. 18/019,076.
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