US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on Dec. 16 for "Devices having a rare earth (oxy) fluoride coating for improved resistance to corrosive chemical environments and methods for making and using these devices" (Japanese, French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,691, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Devices having a rare earth (oxy) fluoride coating for improved resistance to corrosive chemical environments and methods for making and using these devices" was invented by Takashi Teramoto (Yokosuka, Japan), Christian Dussarrat (Tokyo), Grigory Nikiforov (Kanata, Canada), Nicolas Blasco (Grenoble, France), Jean-Marc Girard (Versailles, France), Takashi Ono (Yokosuka, Japan), Keishi Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Masato Hirai (Yokosuka, Japan) and Sunao Kamimura (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...