ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,692, issued on April 29, was assigned to HUNAN RARE EARTH METAL MATERIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD. (Hunan, China).

"Aluminum-scandium alloy target with high scandium content, and preparation method thereof" was invented by Hua Liu (Hunan, China), Meisong Huang (Hunan, China), Yuchuan Fan (Hunan, China), Zhijian Wang (Hunan, China), Shuaiguang Jia (Hunan, China), Zhen Fu (Hunan, China), Maohai Yao (Hunan, China) and Luhui Yang (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an aluminum-scandium alloy target with high scandium content and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises: preparing aluminum and scandium; m...