US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY on Feb. 3 for "Rare earth aluminum alloy powder applicable for additive manufacturing and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,377, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Rare earth aluminum alloy powder applicable for additive manufacturing and preparation method thereof" was invented by Haiyan Gao (Shanghai), Haiyang Lv (Shanghai), Mengmeng Wang (Shanghai), Peng Peng (Shanghai), Yun Wu (Shanghai), Chi Zhang (Shanghai), Min Li (Shanghai), Yufei Wang (Shanghai), Jun Wang (Shanghai) and Baode Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a rare earth aluminum alloy powder applicable for additive manufacturing includes: heating and melting aluminum ingots into an aluminum melt; adding required alloy el...