US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 27 for "Nickel-based superalloys and articles" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,779, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Nickel-based superalloys and articles" was invented by Wei-Jun Zhang (Mason, Ohio) and Douglas Gerard Konitzer (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nickel-based superalloy composition is provided that includes 6.1 wt. % to 6.6 wt. % aluminum; 5.6 wt. % to 6.6 wt. % tantalum; 9.0 wt. % to 11.0 wt. % chromium; 5.5 wt % to 6.2 wt. % tungsten; 1.1 wt. % to 1.4 wt % molybdenum; 2.0 wt. % to 2.6 wt % rhenium; 5.5 wt. % to 10.0 wt % cobalt; 0.2 wt % to 0.5 wt % hafnium; up to 0.05 wt % carbon; 0.002 wt % to 0.01 wt % boron; and a balance of nicke...