MUMBAI, India, May 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547036413 A) filed by Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Hyogo, Japan, on April 15, for 'super-hard alloy and cutting tool.'

Inventor(s) include Yamakawa, Takahiro; Yamanishi, Takato; and Hikiji, Masahito.

The application for the patent was published on May 9, under issue no. 19/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a super-hard alloy that includes a first phase, a second phase and a third phase. The first phase comprises a plurality of tungsten carbide particles. The content of the first phase in the super-hard alloy is 65-85 vol%. The arithmetic mean diameter a of the tungsten carbide particles ...