US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 22 for "Methods of fabricating oxide/metal composites and components produced thereby" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,631, issued on July 22, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Methods of fabricating oxide/metal composites and components produced thereby" was invented by Kenneth H. Sandhage (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing oxide/metal composite components for use in high temperature systems, and components produced thereby. The methods use a fluid reactant and a porous preform that contains a solid oxide reactant. The fluid reactant contains yttrium as a displacing metal and the solid oxide reactant of the preform contains niobium oxide, of which niobium cations are displaceable s...