US Patent Issued to KENNAMETAL on June 16 for "Deposition of coatings on manufactured products using real-time powder feed rate control" (Pennsylvania, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,513, issued on June 16, was assigned to KENNAMETAL INC. (Latrobe, Pa.).

"Deposition of coatings on manufactured products using real-time powder feed rate control" was invented by Andrew M. Ruminski (Natrona Heights, Pa.), Ted Niespodziany (South Bend, Ind.), Robert J. Vasinko (Latrobe, Pa.) and Qingjun Zheng (Export, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder feeder system includes multiple electro-mechanical powder feeders structured for conveying powder compositions to a mixing hopper. A programmable logic control (PLC) can be incorporated into the multiple feeder system. The PLC can be programmed for determining a real-time powde...