ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,459, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Zhenjiang, China).

"Preparation method for heterogeneous Mg alloys bar with high elastic modulus" was invented by Xuefei Chen (Jiangsu, China), Qile Huo (Jiangsu, China), Zhen Peng (Jiangsu, China), Rui Luo (Jiangsu, China) and Manping Liu (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It provides a preparation method of solid-liquid composite casting in a specific mold to produce the heterostructured metallic bars composed of high elastic modulus metal and low elastic modulus Mg alloy. Subsequently, the microstructure of heterogeneous Mg alloys bars is adjusted by the specifi...