US Patent Issued to Mazak on Nov. 4 for "Devices, systems, and methods for increased wear resistance during low temperature friction stir processing" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,051, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Mazak Corp. (Florence, Ky.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for increased wear resistance during low temperature friction stir processing" was invented by Rodney Dale Fleck (Draper, Utah) and Russell J. Steel (Salem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of friction stir processing (FSP) includes contacting a first workpiece with a FSP tool, where the first workpiece is a low-melting temperature metal or alloy and the FSP tool is a single-body FSP tool having a diamond working surface. The method also includes rotating the FSP tool in contact with the first workpiece at an interface and ge...