ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,091, issued on April 8, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Boride-reinforced aluminum-containing high entropy alloy composition" was invented by Sathisha Chikkabikkodu Hanum (Bengaluru, India), Mohandas Nayak (Bengaluru, India), Surinder Singh Pabla (Greer, S.C.) and Biju Dasan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition, a machine component coated with the same, and a method of coating the machine component are provided. The composition includes a CoNiCrAlY alloy, where three or more elements of the CoNiCrAlY alloy are present in equimolar amounts, one of the three or more elemen...