US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools on Feb. 10 for "Method of treating a cemented carbide mining insert" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,977, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools AB (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Method of treating a cemented carbide mining insert" was invented by Mirjam Lilja (Stockholm), Jose Luis Garcia (Stockholm), Andreas Blomqvist (Stockholm), Ioannis Arvanitidis (Stockholm) and Erik Holmstrom (Sandviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of redistributing the binder phase of a cemented carbide mining insert having a WC hard-phase component, optionally one or more further hard-phase components and a binder includes the steps of providing a green cemented carbide mining insert; applying at least one binder ...