ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,540, issued on April 22, was assigned to San Diego State University Research Foundation (San Diego).
"In situ partially degradable separation interface for fabrication of complex near net shape objects by pressure assisted sintering" was invented by Charles Maniere (Toulouse, France) and Eugene Olevsky (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for fabricating complex mechanical shapes, and in particular to fabricating complex mechanical shapes using a pressure-assisted sintering technique to address problems relating to variations in specimen thickness and tooling, or densification gradients, by 3-D ...