US Patent Issued to Sandvik SRP on Dec. 30 for "Crushing or wear part having a localized composite wear zone" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,648, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandvik SRP AB (Svedala, Sweden).

"Crushing or wear part having a localized composite wear zone" was invented by Latifa Melk (Svedala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crushing or wear part includes an un-reinforced steel alloy body and at least one in-situ cast localized composite wear zone disposed in the steel alloy body formed of metal carbide or metal boride particles selected from TiC, ZrC, WC, NbC, TaC, TiB2, and ZrB2 distributed in a steel alloy matrix. The at least one in-situ cast localized composite wear zone has a Vickers Hardness that is at least 700 and at least 50% greater...