US Patent Issued to US SYNTHETIC on July 8 for "Polycrystalline diamond, polycrystalline diamond compacts, methods of making same, and applications" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,792, issued on July 8, was assigned to US SYNTHETIC Corp. (Orem, Utah).

"Polycrystalline diamond, polycrystalline diamond compacts, methods of making same, and applications" was invented by Kenneth E. Bertagnolli (Riverton, Utah), Jiang Qian (Cedar Hills, Utah), Jason K. Wiggins (Draper, Utah), Michael A. Vail (Genola, Utah), Debkumar Mukhopadhyay (Sandy, Utah) and Brandon P. Linford (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts ("PDC") exhibiting enhanced diamond-to-diamond bonding. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a polycrystalline diamond ("PCD") table bonded to...