US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Sept. 16 for "Severe plastic deformation of degradable material" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,214, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Severe plastic deformation of degradable material" was invented by Indranil Roy (Missouri City, Texas) and Gregoire Jacob (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include processing material via at least one severe plastic deformation process to form a degradable component where the material includes aluminum and one or more metals selected from a group of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, group 12 transition metals, and basic metals having an atomic number equal to or greater than 31."

The patent was filed on March ...