US Patent Issued on Aug. 5 for "Additive for treating molten iron to produce cast iron with zero contraction and with Lonsdaleite-type spheroidal graphite" (Mexican Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,618, issued on Aug. 5.

"Additive for treating molten iron to produce cast iron with zero contraction and with Lonsdaleite-type spheroidal graphite" was invented by Francisco Alfonso Labrador Rodriguez (Saltillo, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Additive for the thermochemical treatment of molten iron in order to separate, distribute, agglomerate, precipitate, spheroidize and/or crystallize combined, solvated and/or colloidal carbon present in molten iron in the liquid state into graphite in its hexagonal diamond or Lonsdaleite form, in order to produce ductile, nodular, spheroidal, vermicular, coral, spheroidized or grey iron wit...