US Patent Issued to C4 Carbides on April 29 for "Carbide material for cutting devices and associated method of manufacture" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,709, issued on April 29, was assigned to C4 Carbides Ltd. (Newmarket, Great Britain).

"Carbide material for cutting devices and associated method of manufacture" was invented by Choon Yen Kong (Newmarket, Great Britain), Andreas Chrysanthou (Newmarket, Great Britain) and Pavels Sevcenko (Newmarket, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a carbide material including tungsten carbide of 60 to 85 weight %, titanium carbides of 10 to 25 weight % and preferably a metal matrix of 0.5 to 20 weight % including Fe and optionally at least one or both of the metals Co or Ni. There is also provided a device including a fer...