US Patent Issued to RTX on Aug. 11 for "Gas flow separation of powdered metal" (Rhode Island Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,008, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Gas flow separation of powdered metal" was invented by JinQuan Xu (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gas flow separation of powders includes establishing a stream of mixed powders; and applying a cross-flow stream of gas to the stream of mixed powders such that powders of different density are displaced by the cross-flow stream to a different extent, thereby forming separate streams of powders having different density. An apparatus is also disclosed."

The patent was filed on April 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/633,810.

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