US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on March 31 for "Method for inspecting a coated surface for coating defects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,901, issued on March 31, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method for inspecting a coated surface for coating defects" was invented by Philipp Isken (Altenberge, Germany), Simon Heeg (Griesheim, Germany), Claudia Jansen (Leverkusen, Germany), Claudia Bramlage (Essen, Germany), Udo Goecke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Oliver Kroehl (Cologne, Germany), Stefan Silber (Krefeld, Germany) and Gaetano Blanda (Haltern am See, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for inspecting a coated surface for a surface defect. The method comprises: using (102) a device (200, 300, 400, 700, 800...