ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,366, issued on June 24, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion, extrusion feedstocks, extrusion processes, and methods for preparing metal sheets" was invented by Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.), Vineet V. Joshi (Richland, Wash.), Md. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.), Jens T. Darsell (West Richland, Wash.), Mageshwari Komarasamy (Richland, Wash.), Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Wash.), Glenn J. Grant (Benton City, Wash.), Aashish Rohatgi (Richland, Wash.), William E. Frazier III (Richland, Wash.) and Brandon Scott Taysom (West Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...