ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,129, issued on April 8, was assigned to UACJ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aluminum alloy brazing sheet and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Tomoki Yamayoshi (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Kumagai (Tokyo), Hirokazu Tanaka (Tokyo), Taketoshi Toyama (Kariya, Japan), Naoki Sugimoto (Kariya, Japan), Nobuhiro Honma (Kariya, Japan), Shogo Yamada (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Shinoda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum alloy brazing sheet used for brazing of an aluminum material in an inert gas atmosphere or in vacuum is formed of a two-layer material in which a brazing material and a core material are stacked in this order. The cor...