ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,385, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOLON INDUSTRIES INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Composite material" was invented by Choongnyun Paul Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Gi Su Ham (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a composite material includes: a primary phase which is an alloy including a metallic element M and a nonmetallic element X and of which at least a portion is an amorphous phase; and a secondary phase which is dispersed in the primary phase and includes a ceramic compound including the metallic element M and the nonmetallic element X and represented by MaXb (whe...