US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on April 29 for "High temperature sintering systems and methods" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,351, issued on April 29, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"High temperature sintering systems and methods" was invented by Liangbing Hu (Rockville, Md.) and Chengwei Wang (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are fast high-temperature sintering systems and methods. A method of fabrication includes positioning a material at a distance of 0-1 centimeters from a first conductive carbon element and at a distance of 0-1 centimeters from a second conductive carbon element, heating the first conductive carbon element and the second conductive carbon element by electrical current ...