ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,112, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BALL Corp. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Impact extruded containers from recycled aluminum scrap" was invented by John L. Siles (Westminster, Colo.), Samuel Melancon (Sherbrooke, Canada), Stanley M. Platek (Edgewater, Md.) and Anthony Chatey (Kolin, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel recycled aluminum alloys are provided for use in an impact extrusion manufacturing process to create shaped containers and other articles of manufacture. In one embodiment blends of recycled scrap aluminum are used in conjunction with relatively pure aluminum to create novel compositions which may be form...