US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on Aug. 11 for "Method to produce high corrosion and wear resistant cast iron components by using laser cladding" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,047, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Method to produce high corrosion and wear resistant cast iron components by using laser cladding" was invented by Hossein Najafi (Anglikon, Switzerland), Franco Arosio (Bad Saeckingen, Germany), Arkadi Zikin (Wohlen, Switzerland) and Rolf Heinecke (Baddeckenstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to produce a wear and corrosion resistant coating system onto a surface of a substrate, preferably a brake disc, comprising the following steps: (1) providing the substrate having the surface made of an iron-based materi...