US Patent Issued to METAL IMPROVEMENT on Aug. 18 for "High density and adhesion coating process and coatings formed thereby" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,817, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to METAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY LLC (Paramus, N.J.).

"High density and adhesion coating process and coatings formed thereby" was invented by Xinqing Ma (Willington, Conn.), Robin Francis (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Peter F. Ruggiero (Westerly, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of applying a coating to a substrate is provided. A layer of a metallic or ceramic material is applied on the substrate by a thermal spray process. The layer is then subject to plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) processing to densify the layer such that a porosity of the layer after PEO processing is lower than ...