US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Feb. 4 for "Iron-based alloy and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,396, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Iron-based alloy and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kenta Yamanaka (Sendai, Japan) and Akihiko Chiba (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An iron-based alloy has excellent corrosion resistance and high strength and a method of manufacturing the iron-based alloy. The iron-based alloy includes Cr: 10 to 22 mass %, W: 1 to 12 mass %, and C: 0.1 to 2.3 mass %, with the remainder being unavoidable impurities and Fe, and is composed of a cast material having a structure composed mainly of austenite or a quenched material having a structure...