US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Sept. 30 for "Metal material and method for manufacturing metal material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,732, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Metal material and method for manufacturing metal material" was invented by Yusuke Kureishi (Osaka, Japan), Tomoharu Takeyama (Osaka, Japan) and Akihisa Hosoe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal material comprising: a base material; an oxide layer disposed on a surface of the base material; and a metal layer disposed on a surface of the oxide layer, wherein the base material includes aluminum, the oxide layer includes aluminum, nickel, and oxygen, the metal layer includes nickel, and an average thickness of the oxide layer is...