ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,736, issued on May 19, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing a brazing sheet" was invented by Yutaka Yanagawa (Aichi, Japan), Taichi Suzuki (Aichi, Japan), Tomoki Yamayoshi (Aichi, Japan) and Tatsuya Ide (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a brazing sheet includes layering at least a core-material slab composed of an aluminum material and a filler-material slab composed of an Al-Si series alloy to prepare a clad slab. At least one aluminum slab in the clad slab, which is disposed in a range from the core-material slab to the filler-material slab inclusive, contains a metal elem...