ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,763, issued on March 18, was assigned to Metasdi Materials Technology Qinhuangdao Co. Ltd. (Qinhuangdao, China).

"ZA4 alloy and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Yuxing Guo (Qinhuangdao, China), Yun Liu (Qinhuangdao, China), Riping Liu (Qinhuangdao, China) and Bo Li (Qinhuangdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a ZA4 alloy and a preparation method and use thereof, and relates to the technical field of pure zirconium materials. In the present disclosure, the ZA4 alloy includes the following components by mass fraction: 0.2% to 0.6% of Fe, 0.1% to 0.3% of O, 0.5% to 4% of Hf, and ...