US Patent Issued to ARCONIC TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "Methods of cold forming aluminum lithium alloys" (Indiana, Pennsylvania, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,772, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARCONIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Methods of cold forming aluminum lithium alloys" was invented by Logan Kirsch (Lafayette, Ind.), Les A. Yocum (West Lafayette, Ind.), Diana K. Denzer (Lower Burrell, Pa.), Douglas S. Bae (Pittsburgh), Andreas K. Kulovits (Pittsburgh) and Ronald G. Cheney (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New methods of making cold formed, extruded aluminum lithium alloys, and unrecrystallized products made therefrom are disclosed. A method may include one or more of heating an unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product to a treatment temperature, c...