ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,517, issued on June 16, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Metal components with inert vapor phase coating on internal surfaces" was invented by Elizabeth Carr (Mountain View, Calif.), Karen Seaward (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kevin P. Killeen (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the invention provides a method of making a thermal vapor coated article including a chemical vapor deposition of a coating on a surface of the article. The method includes exposing the article to one or more of (i) an inorganic precursor, (ii) an organic molecular precursor, (iii) a precursor to produce o...