US Patent Issued to Raytheon on March 4 for "Congruently melting titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,143, issued on March 4, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Congruently melting titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy" was invented by Sunder S. Rajan (Anaheim, Calif.), Robert Ko (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Michael Ushinsky (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant mount or mechanism structure includes a titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy including titanium, about 13.5 to about 14.5 wt. % zirconium, and about 18 to about 19 weight % (wt. %) niobium. The titanium-zirconium-niobium alloy has a congruent melting temperature of about 1750 to about 1800deg C."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2019, under Application...