US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Nov. 4 for "Process for welding dissimilar materials with nested dovetails" (Washington, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,664, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Process for welding dissimilar materials with nested dovetails" was invented by Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.), Kenneth A. Ross (West Richland, Wash.), M. D. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.) and Yuri Hovanski (Mapleton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for connecting two dissimilar materials having different melting points is described wherein a the materials are heated together to obtain plasticization of the lower melting point material within a prefigured geometry within a first material in such a way so as to form intermetallic...