US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on July 1 for "Ni-W based medium heavy alloy and forming methods and applications of same" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,925, issued on July 1, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Ni-W based medium heavy alloy and forming methods and applications of same" was invented by Xiaobing Hu (Evanston, Ill.), Shaozun Liu (Beijing), Chunxu Wang (Beijing), Yong Li (Beijing) and Vinayak P. Dravid (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium heavy alloy (MHA) and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The MHA includes a composition designed and processed such that the MHA has properties comprising a tensile strength of about 1527 MPa, a proof strength of about 1337 MPa, and an impact toughness of about 180 J, when the MHA is fo...