US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Oct. 20 for "Manufacture of alloys with controlled chemical compositions via chemical vapor transport annealing" (Missouri, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,009, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Manufacture of alloys with controlled chemical compositions via chemical vapor transport annealing" was invented by David W. Lipke (Rolla, Mo.), Andrew S. King (Canisteo, N.Y.) and Ryan D. Dempsey (Rolla, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a metal alloy component. The method comprises heating a shaped metal component and an alloying element source of vapor-phase transportable alloying element species in a reactor in the presence of a vapor-phase transport agent, wherein the heating is conducted under conditi...