US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation, United States Department of Energy on July 1 for "In-line microwave processing of alloys" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,262, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.) and United States Department of Energy (Washington).

"In-line microwave processing of alloys" was invented by Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. (Allison Park, Pa.), Kevin Byerly (Pittsburgh), Dinesh Agrawal (State College, Pa.) and Michael Lanagan (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems including a microwave radiation source are described. A first region of a pure magnetic field can be generated in a first processing zone using a microwave radiation source of the first processing zone. The first processing zone can be a ...