US Patent Issued to MATSYS on March 18 for "Apparatus and method for bulk structural modification of metallic materials at reduced temperatures" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,761, issued on March 18, was assigned to MATSYS INC. (Sterling, Va.).

"Apparatus and method for bulk structural modification of metallic materials at reduced temperatures" was invented by Steven L. Peebles (Berryville, Va.), Pascal Dube (Chantilly, Va.), Anthony James Roberts (Chesapeake City, Md.) and Kristopher Allen Darling (Harve de Grace, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of mechanical milling and grinding of various materials at temperatures ranging from sub-ambient conditions to well-below their ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) are presented. In one embodiment the present invention entail...