US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Aug. 26 for "Shear-assisted extrusion assemblies and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,334, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Shear-assisted extrusion assemblies and methods" was invented by Mageshwari Komarasamy (Richland, Wash.), Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.) and Brian Milligan (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shear-assisted extrusion assemblies are provided. The assemblies can include a billet containing assembly containing a billet comprising a billet outer material and a billet inner material in at least one cross-section; a tool operably engaged with the billet; an extrudate receiving channel configured to receive extrudate from the tool, wh...