US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Feb. 11 for "Doped or alloyed materials and hot isostatic pressing method of making same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,394, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Doped or alloyed materials and hot isostatic pressing method of making same" was invented by Gary Cook (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Ronald W. Stites (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A doped substrate having a substrate comprising at least one of a glass material, a single crystal material, a poly-crystalline material, a ceramic material, or a semiconductor material. The doped substrate includes a dopant comprising one or more transition metals, one or more rare earth elements, or...