US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on Oct. 20 for "Chemical reactivation method to adhere coatings directly to metal surfaces" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,549, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Chemical reactivation method to adhere coatings directly to metal surfaces" was invented by Jason Alan Bolles (Kent, Wash.), Jay Victor Covey (Kent, Wash.) and Scott Allen Davis (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adhering a coating to a metal substrate includes exposing a surface of a metal substrate to a solvent, applying a sol-gel treatment to the metal substrate, drying the treated metal substrate, applying a chemical reactivator to the treated metal substrate, and applying a polymer coating to the metal substrate. The method can...