US Patent Issued to CHAMPIONX on Feb. 10 for "Coatings for wear surfaces and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,172, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CHAMPIONX LLC (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Coatings for wear surfaces and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Riyadh Salloom (Arlington, Texas), Ramamurthy Narasimhan (Dallas), Justin Green (Fort Worth, Texas), Neil Thomas (Crowley, Texas) and James Rowan (Burleson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metal-based ceramic composite coatings and related devices, assemblies, and methods include monocrystalline superhard particles dispersed in a metal matrix disposed on at least one wear surface of a component of an oil and gas well assembly, system, or device."

The paten...