US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 24 for "Preparation for pre-treating surfaces by chemically converting oxide layers of titanium or titanium alloys" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,228, issued on March 24, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Preparation for pre-treating surfaces by chemically converting oxide layers of titanium or titanium alloys" was invented by Benedikt Langer (Hamburg, Germany) and Tobias Mertens (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation and a process for the surface pretreatment of titanium or titanium alloys containing 200 to 400 g/l NaOH and 10 to 150 g/l MGDA in water, wherein the preparation has a pH of at least 12, and preferably 13, and wherein a content of further substances is less than 1 g/l."

The patent was filed on July 15, 2024, und...