US Patent Issued to Vacuumschmelze on June 3 for "Method for heat treating an object containing at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,843, issued on June 3, was assigned to Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Method for heat treating an object containing at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure" was invented by Kaan Ustuner (Hanau, Germany), Matthias Katter (Hanau, Germany), Christoph Brombacher (Hanau, Germany) and Daniela Benedikt (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for the heat treatment of an object comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure. One or more objects comprising at least one rare-earth element with a high vapor pressure are arranged in an interior of a package. An ...