ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,133, issued on May 5, was assigned to GUIZHOU POWER GRID Co. LTD (Guiyang, China).

"Digital and informationized fully-automatic aluminum thermal-spraying production line" was invented by Bo Li (Guiyang, China), Jie Bai (Guiyang, China), Yongliang Yi (Guiyang, China), Hongtao Liu (Guiyang, China), Zhiqing Zhang (Guiyang, China), Zhen Tan (Guiyang, China), Shifeng Liu (Guiyang, China), Xiujing Wang (Guiyang, China), Dan Yang (Guiyang, China), Chun Shao (Guiyang, China), Yu Wu (Guiyang, China) and Jingfeng Li (Guiyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital and informationized fully-automatic aluminum thermal-spraying production l...