US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on July 15 for "Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion and extrusion processes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,035, issued on July 15, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion and extrusion processes" was invented by Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.), Darrell R. Herling (Kennewick, Wash.), Xiao Li (Richland, Wash.), Md. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.), Brandon Scott Taysom (West Richland, Wash.), Glenn J. Grant (Benton City, Wash.), Vineet V. Joshi (Richland, Wash.), Rajib Kalsar (Richland, Wash.) and Tianhao Wang (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for preparing an extruded product from a solid billet. Th...