ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,493, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to US Synthetic Corp. (Orem, Utah).

"Polyscrystalline diamond compact including erosion and corrosion resistant substrate" was invented by Debkumar Mukhopadhyay (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts that have a substrate including a cementing constituent constituting less than 13 weight percent (wt %) of the substrate, the cementing constituent including a cobalt alloy having and at least one alloying element, wherein the at least one alloying element constitutes less than 12 wt % of the substrate and wherein the cobalt...