US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on June 3 for "Cold sintering process for densification and sintering of powdered metals" (Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,841, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Cold sintering process for densification and sintering of powdered metals" was invented by Selda Nayir (Karapinar Konya, Turkey), Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan (State College, Pa.), Daudi Waryoba (Dubois, Pa.) and Clive Randall (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments can relate to an improved hydroflux, additive or electroless plating assisted densification cold sintering process to densify powdered metals at lower compaction pressures and lower temperatures (e.g., 520 MPa and 140deg C.). The process can involve inducin...