US Patent Issued to Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy on Oct. 7 for "Diffusion bonding of piezoelectric crystal to metal wear plate" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,824, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (Mumbai, India).

"Diffusion bonding of piezoelectric crystal to metal wear plate" was invented by Gnanasekaran Thiagarajan (Kalpakkam, India), Lakshmi Gandhan I.Ilango (Kalpakkam, India), Asokane Cannessane (Kalpakkam, India), Jeyan Ramamurthy Mattamanna (Kalpakkam, India) and Saju Thomas Abraham (Kalpakkam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method of diffusion bonding of a lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric crystal to a metal wear plate, for the fabrication of an ultrasonic transducer operable at high temperatures and able to withstand r...