US Patent Issued to Garrett Transportation I on April 7 for "Wheels including a coating layer and methods for making the same" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,802, issued on April 7, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Wheels including a coating layer and methods for making the same" was invented by Palaniappa Murukesan (Bangalore, India), Philippe Renaud (Thaon-les-Vosges, France), Yann Simler (Thaon-les-Vosges, France), Mathieu Staub (Thaon-les-Vosges, France) and Francois Kuehn (Golbey, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel includes a hub portion configured to rotate about a rotational axis. A plurality of blades extends radially outward from the hub portion. Each blade of the plurality of blades includes a leading edge and a trailing edge. The hub...