ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,572, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Institute of New Materials, Guangdong Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China).

"Spherical medical tantalum alloy powder, preparation method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Xingchen Yan (Guangzhou, China), Dongdong Dong (Guangzhou, China), Jiangqi Zhu (Guangzhou, China), Bingwen Lu (Guangzhou, China) and Cheng Chang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a spherical medical tantalum alloy powder, a preparation method therefor and a use thereof, the preparation method comprising the following steps: S1. conducting preliminary plasma spheroidiza...