US Patent Issued to Continuum Powders on Dec. 30 for "Load lock system and method for manufacturing metal alloys and metal powder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,297, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Continuum Powders Corp. (Cloverdale, Calif.).

"Load lock system and method for manufacturing metal alloys and metal powder" was invented by Matthew Charles (Cloverdale, Calif.), Christopher Paul Eonta (Los Gatos, Calif.), Paul Meese (Healdsburg, Calif.) and Jonathan Nuttall (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load lock system for manufacturing a metal alloy using a feed material includes a process chamber having a controlled atmosphere, a feed chamber in flow communication with the process chamber having controlled atmosphere capabilities configured to contain a quantity of the...