US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Microstructural layering of thermal spray coating" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,023, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Microstructural layering of thermal spray coating" was invented by Sidharth Krishnamoorthi (Indianapolis), Matthew R. Gold (Indianapolis) and Robert Golden (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing device, an image indicative of a cross-section of a thermally-sprayed layer. The thermally-sprayed layer includes a microstructure. The image comprises a matrix of pixels, each pixel in the matrix of pixels defining a respective luminance value. The method ...