ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,525, issued on May 13, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method for nickel-based alloy product or titanium-based alloy product" was invented by Mari Yoshihara (Tokyo), Takuya Murai (Tokyo), Tadashi Fukuda (Tokyo) and Shoichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a Ni- or Ti-based alloy product, the method capable of reliably locally cooling and effectively cooling. The method includes the steps: heating and holding a hot working material of a Ni- or Ti-based alloy after hot forging or hot ring rolling at a solution treatment temperature to obtain a material held in a h...