US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on April 29 for "Casting elements and methods of making the same using low temperature solidification" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,797, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Casting elements and methods of making the same using low temperature solidification" was invented by Richard E. Riman (Piscataway, N.J.) and Kevin Blinn (Franklin Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Foundry casting elements and methods of forming the same, the methods including: forming an aqueous slurry including an inorganic binder precursor, shaping the slurry using a pattern, curing the shaped slurry using a low temperature solidification process to form a casting element, and removing the pattern from the casting el...