ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,194, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Pulse energy manipulation of material properties" was invented by David A. Borkholder (Canandaigua, N.Y.), Jing Ouyang (Scottsville, N.Y.), Denis R. Cormier (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Ahmed Alfadhel (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Material properties are manipulated using rapid pulse application of energy in combination with applied electric or magnetic fields. When sintering, annealing or crystallizing a target film, the pulse repetition cycle can be constrained to ensure material temperature rises above and falls below the Cur...