US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle, University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Iowa State University Research Foundation, ECK Industries, Lawrence Livermore National Security on May 20 for "Rapidly solidified aluminum-rare earth element alloy and method of making the same" (Tennessee, California, Iowa, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,267, issued on May 20, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.), Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa), ECK Industries Inc. (Manitowoc, Wis.) and Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Rapidly solidified aluminum-rare earth element alloy and method of making the same" was invented by Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tenn.), Scott McCall (Livermore, Calif.), Ryan Ott (Ames, Iowa), Zachary Cole Sims (Knoxville, Tenn.), Michael Kesler (Knoxville, Tenn.), Hunter B. Henderson (Knoxville, Tenn.), Michael McGuire (Knoxville, Tenn.) and David Weiss (Manitowoc, Wis.).

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