US Patent Issued to VACTRONIX SCIENTIFIC on April 15 for "Engineered multi-dimensional metallurgical properties in PVD materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,017, issued on April 15, was assigned to VACTRONIX SCIENTIFIC LLC (San Antonio).

"Engineered multi-dimensional metallurgical properties in PVD materials" was invented by Scott P. Carpenter (Fremont, Calif.), Tianzong Xu (San Ramon, Calif.) and Harshal Surangalikar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-layer metal or pseudometallic materials having engineered anisotropy are disclosed. The multi-layer materials having defined engineered grain orientations in each layer of the multi-layer material and bond layers between adjacent layers orthogonal to the grain orientations. This configuration distributes applied stress a...