US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Jan. 27 for "Thermo-hydrogen refinement of microstructure of titanium materials" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,789, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Thermo-hydrogen refinement of microstructure of titanium materials" was invented by James D. Paramore (Salt Lake City), Brady G. Butler (Salt Lake City), Matthew K. Dunstan (Salt Lake City), Jonathan P. Ligda (Salt Lake City) and Zhigang Z. Fang (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying a microstructure of a titanium material can include providing a solid titanium material in an inert atmosphere, where the solid titanium material has an initial microstructure with an initial grain size and which is optionally a...