US Patent Issued to CMMC on Dec. 30 for "Casting apparatus and casting method for production of metal matrix composite materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,647, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CMMC GmbH (Chemnitz, Germany).

"Casting apparatus and casting method for production of metal matrix composite materials" was invented by Marcel Graf (Chemnitz, Germany), Robert Pippig (Chemnitz, Germany) and Thomas Lampke (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casting apparatus for producing metal matrix composite materials includes a melt channel inclined in an apparatus flow direction, a flow pathway for a metal melt, and a particle feed device for adding solid particles to the metal melt. A casting method includes adding solid particles to a metal melt flowing in a continuous fl...