ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,654, issued on June 2, was assigned to KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE (Karlsruhe, Germany).
"Method for producing pipes having topographic inner structures" was invented by Heiko Neuberger (Linkenheim, Germany), Frederik Arbeiter (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Sebastian Ruck (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a pipe with an inner pipe having topographic structures arranged on an inside of the inner pipe and having a coating arranged on an outside of the inner pipe, the method including: a) providing at least two pipe shell segments, each with an inner wall, an outer wall, and a peripheral abutmen...