US Patent Issued to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN on July 1 for "Armor component comprising a titanium carbonitride phase" (Indian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,560, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN (Courbevoie, France).

"Armor component comprising a titanium carbonitride phase" was invented by Hemanth Kumar Pattem (Andhra Pradesh, India), Nandi Subhasis (Karnataka, India), Ghosh Bismit (Karnataka, India) and Matthieu Graveleau (Avignon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An armor component and manufacturing thereof which includes a ceramic hard material, where the hard material has a bulk density that is lower than 3.5 g/cm3 and includes grains of ceramic material having a Vickers hardness that is higher than 15 GPa, bonded by an bon...