ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,065, issued on June 10, was assigned to ADVANCED COMPOSITE Corp. (Fuji, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing metal matrix composite material" was invented by Yoshio Takagi (Fuji, Japan), Hitoshi Kitamura (Fuji, Japan) and Shogo Ochiai (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a metal matrix composite by compounding a matrix material and a reinforcing material. The metal matrix composite has a near-net shape with high dimensional accuracy and a high reinforcing material volume ratio (Vf %). The matrix material is a pure metal or an alloy, and the reinforcing material includes ceramic particles, graphite particles...