ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,428, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Jiangsu University (Jiangsu, China).

"High-pressure and multi-atmosphere assisted SLM gradient material preparation method and aluminum-lithium alloy coating" was invented by Lei Huang (Jiangsu, China), Jianzhong Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Yanqiang Gou (Jiangsu, China), Li Li (Jiangsu, China), Xiankai Meng (Jiangsu, China) and Shu Huang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a high-pressure and multi-atmosphere assisted SLM gradient material preparation method and an aluminum-lithium alloy coating. The high-pressure and multi-atmosphere assisted SLM gradient ma...