US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 21 for "Method for forming hollow profile non-circular extrusions using shear assisted processing and extrusion (ShAPE)" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,518, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Method for forming hollow profile non-circular extrusions using shear assisted processing and extrusion (ShAPE)" was invented by Vineet V. Joshi (Richland, Wash.), Scott A. Whalen (West Richland, Wash.), Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Wash.), Glenn J. Grant (Benton City, Wash.), Md. Reza-E-Rabby (Richland, Wash.), Aashish Rohatgi (Richland, Wash.) and Jens T. Darsell (West Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for forming extruded products using a device having a scroll face configured to apply a rotational shearing force and an ax...