ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,010, issued on June 3, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Alloy member and method for hardening surface thereof" was invented by Junichi Sato (Hino, Japan), Kazuma Kobayashi (Fuchu, Japan), Shouta Nagasawa (Machida, Japan), Kenichi Inoue (Hamura, Japan), Chinfu Liu (Guangdong, China), Wuchien Liu (Guangdong, China), Tienchai Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Weipin Kao (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material o...