US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 23 for "Thermal processing techniques for metallic materials" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,132, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Thermal processing techniques for metallic materials" was invented by Michael E. McHenry (Pittsburgh), Kevin Byerly (Pittsburgh), Paul R. Ohodnicki (Pittsburgh), Yuval Krimer (Pittsburgh), Satoru Simizu (Pittsburgh) and Alex M. Leary (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of thermally processing a material with a thermal processing system includes providing a material for treating in an in-line thermal process to a heating system, providing a force to the material at a portion of the material configured to be heated by the heating system,...