US Patent Issued to Vactronix Scientific on Sept. 1 for "PVD deposited ternary and quaternary NiTi alloys and methods of making same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,301, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Vactronix Scientific LLC (San Antonio).

"PVD deposited ternary and quaternary NiTi alloys and methods of making same" was invented by Scott P. Carpenter (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ternary and quaternary shape memory alloys, particularly nickel-titanium based quaternary and quaternary shape memory alloys, are disclosed and made by a method employing physical vapor deposition (PVD), such as by sputtering, of NiTiX, wherein X is a ternary metal constituent. By employing PVD processing, ternary and quaternary NiTi alloy bulk materials may be made in in the as-deposited state s...