US Patent Issued to University of Tennessee Research Foundation on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for ultrasonic additive manufacturing of metals" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,970, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for ultrasonic additive manufacturing of metals" was invented by Michael Barnes Pagan (Knoxville, Tenn.), Steven Zinkle (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Sudarsanam Babu (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and apparatus for bonding metals. In an example, a provided method includes (i) disposing a layer of Vanadium onto a first Titanium surface of a first tangible object, (ii) placing a second Titanium surface of a second tangible object in direct contact with the layer of Vanadium, and (i...