ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,789, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUESTEK INNOVATIONS LLC (Evanston, Ill.) and QUESTEK EUROPE AB (Solna, Sweden).
"Bulk metallic glass-based alloys for additive manufacturing" was invented by Abhinav Saboo (Evanston, Ill.), Zaynab Mahbooba (Raleigh, N.C.), Ida Svensson Berglund (Chicago), Martin Walbruhl (Solna, Sweden) and Jiayi Yan (Sollentuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alloy may include at least one first element, the first element being selected from: nickel (Ni), zirconium (Zr), cerium (Ce), molybdenum (Mo), aluminum (Al), tantalum (Ta), cobalt (Co), yttrium (Y), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn...