ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,031, issued on March 24, was assigned to Temper IP LLC (Cedar Springs, Mich.).
"Method for densification of powdered material using thermal cycling and magnetic cycling" was invented by Jason Golightly (Twin Lake, Mich.), Luke A. Martin (Wyoming, Mich.) and William C. Dykstra (Rockford, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for densifying a material includes arranging the material in a cavity of a mold and applying pressure to the material in the mold. While applying pressure to the material in the mold, a magnetic field is applied to the material in the mold to cause the material to transform between a first allotrope phase...