US Patent Issued to HYPERION MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Lightweight cemented carbide" (Spanish, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,011, issued on April 15, was assigned to HYPERION MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Worthington, Ohio).

"Lightweight cemented carbide" was invented by Nuria Cinca I Luis (Barcelona, Spain), Laura Larrimbe (Barcelona, Spain), Jose Maria Tarrago (Barcelona, Spain) and Stefan Ederyd (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cemented carbide suitable for use as a material in the manufacture of a punch for metal forming and in particular for the manufacture of metal beverage cans. The cemented carbide may include a hard phase that includes WC, a binder phase and a gamma phase. The gamma phase may include metal carbides...