US Patent Issued to Tribonex on Sept. 1 for "Manufacturing of tribological hardfacings on PM and AM articles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,312, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tribonex AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Manufacturing of tribological hardfacings on PM and AM articles" was invented by Boris Zhmud (Uppsala, Sweden), Mattias Sund (Vittinge, Sweden), Martin Hansen (Uppsala, Sweden), Linus Everlid (Uppsala, Sweden) and Elias Forssbeck Nyrot (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for formation of hardfacings on an article comprises producing, by powder metallurgy or additive manufacturing, an article having a discontinuous surface. The article is exposed to impact items and to tungsten carbide particles, provided as tungsten carbide particles comprise...