ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,272, issued on March 11, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.), Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa) and University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Aluminum-cerium-copper alloys for metal additive manufacturing" was invented by Sumit Bahl (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ryan R. Dehoff (Knoxville, Tenn.), Hunter B. Henderson (Livermore, Calif.), Scott McCall (Livermore, Calif.), Ryan Ott (Ames, Iowa), Alexander J. Plotkowski (Knoxville, Tenn.), Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tenn.), Amit Shyam (Knoxville, Tenn.), Zachary C. Sims (Knoxville, Tenn.), Kevin D. Sisco (Knoxville, Tenn....