ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,155, issued on June 17, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"Preparation method for iron-based alloy powder EBSD test sample" was invented by Zuming Liu (Changsha, China), Quan Li (Changsha, China), Boyun Huang (Changsha, China), Xueqian Lv (Changsha, China), Kai Peng (Changsha, China) and Fan Zhao (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method for an iron-based alloy powder EBSD test sample includes the following steps: surface electrolytic activation of an iron-based powder; ultrasonically cleaning the powder, and drying the powder to obtain a surface activated powder; adding the surfac...