ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,819, issued on July 1, was assigned to HARBIN WELDING INSTITUTE Ltd. COMPANY (Harbin, China).
"Flux-cored welding strip and welding flux used in combination for submerged arc welding of duplex stainless steel, and preparation methods and use thereof" was invented by Kai Xu (Harbin, China), Pengbo Wu (Harbin, China), Xiao Guo (Harbin, China), Wei Feng (Harbin, China), Shubin Huo (Harbin, China), Shaowei Chen (Harbin, China), Bo Chen (Harbin, China), Hanmin Wu (Harbin, China), Yiming Ma (Harbin, China), Laibo Sun (Harbin, China), Chao Wei (Harbin, China) and Naiwen Fang (Harbin, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a flux-...