ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,899, issued on June 10, was assigned to MONASH UNIVERSITY (Clayton, Australia).

"Heat treatable titanium alloy" was invented by Xinhua Wu (Clayton, Australia) and Xigen Zhou (Clayton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A "modified" meta-stable #titanium alloy that, apart from carbon content, corresponds to the composition range for standard Beta-C titanium alloy. The modified alloy comprises vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, zirconium, aluminium, with maxima for oxygen, iron, nitrogen, hydrogen, yttrium, and other elements (apart from carbon and titanium), with a balance (apart from carbon) of titanium. The modified alloy has car...