US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE on June 30 for "Methods for producing locally hardened components" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,850, issued on June 30, was assigned to SOUTHWEST TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Chongqing, China).

"Methods for producing locally hardened components" was invented by Feng Kang (Chongqing, China), Qiang Chen (Chongqing, China), Yi Che (Chongqing, China), Feiyue Zhang (Chongqing, China), Jun Lin (Chongqing, China), Yanbin Wang (Chongqing, China), Jun Liu (Chongqing, China) and Feifei Peng (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a locally hardened component is provided. The method includes S1: placing a to-be-heated portion of a base component in an induction coil for induction heating t...