US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Sept. 30 for "Nickel-based alloy, powder, method and component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,705, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Nickel-based alloy, powder, method and component" was invented by Christoph Heinze (Markkleeberg, Germany), Yves Kusters (Berlin) and Michael Ott (Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nickel-based alloy which includes at least the following alloy elements in wt. %: cobalt (Co) 10.3-10.7, chromium (Cr) 9.8-10.2, tungsten (W) 9.3-9.7, aluminum (Al) 5.2-5.7, hafnium (Hf) 1.8-2.2, tantalum (Ta) 1.9-2.1, molybdenum (Mo) 0.4-0.6, the remainder being nickel and impurities."

The patent was filed on June 17, 2021, under Applicati...