US Patent Issued to Xi'an University of Technology on March 17 for "Method for preparing copper-plated titanium alloy wire reinforced aluminum-based composite material" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,681, issued on March 17, was assigned to Xi'an University of Technology (Xi'an, China).

"Method for preparing copper-plated titanium alloy wire reinforced aluminum-based composite material" was invented by Lisheng Zhong (Xi'an, China), Zixuan Dou (Xi'an, China), Yanwei Wang (Xi'an, China), Tiandong Wu (Xi'an, China), Yanqing Zhang (Xi'an, China), Jianlei Zhu (Xi'an, China) and Yunhua Xu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing a copper-plated titanium alloy wire reinforced aluminum-based composite material, including steps of: etching a cleaned TC4 wire; then electroplating...