US Patent Issued to Indiana Tube on July 21 for "Corrosion resistant tube and method of manufacture" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,252, issued on July 21, was assigned to Indiana Tube Corp. (Evansville, Ind.).

"Corrosion resistant tube and method of manufacture" was invented by Ron L. Hawkins (Evansville, Ind.), Joel M. Cunningham (Lafayette, Ind.), Rick J. Williamson (Evansville, Ind.), Rick L. Johnson (Mt. Vernon, Ind.), Randy E. Mohr (Newburgh, Ind.), Matthew A. Johnson (Evansville, Ind.) and Daron W. McDonald (Evansville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corrosion resistant tube includes a tubular low carbon steel body having an inside surface and an outside surface, a corrosion resistant metal coating on the inside surface, a first corrosion resistant ...