ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,655, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALLOYED Ltd. (Kidlington, Great Britain).

"Nickel-based alloy" was invented by David Crudden (Begbroke, Great Britain) and Andre Nemeth (Begbroke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: between 1.0 and 3.5% aluminium, 0.0 and 3.6% titanium, 0.0 and 6.0% niobium, 0.0 and 4.9% tantalum, 0.0 and 5.4% tungsten, 0.0 and 4.0% molybdenum, 8.9 and 30.0% cobalt, 10.8 and 20.6% chromium, 0.02 and 0.35% carbon, between 0.001 and 0.2% boron, between 0.001 and 0.5% zirconium, 0.0 and 5.0% rhenium, 0.0 and 8.5% ruthenium, 0.0 and 4.6...