US Patent Issued to SMARTER ALLOYS on May 20 for "Methods and systems for processing materials, including shape memory materials" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,268, issued on May 20, was assigned to SMARTER ALLOYS INC. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Methods and systems for processing materials, including shape memory materials" was invented by Mohammad Ibrahem Khan (Waterloo, Canada) and Yunhong Norman Zhou (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a material comprising: applying energy to a predetermined portion of the material in a controlled manner such that the local chemistry of the predetermined portion is altered to provide a predetermined result. When the material is a shape memory material, the predetermined result may be to provide an additional memory to the pr...