US Patent Issued to WOLVERINE ADVANCED MATERIALS on May 12 for "Durable high friction coating (DHFC) for brake application" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,970, issued on May 12, was assigned to WOLVERINE ADVANCED MATERIALS LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Durable high friction coating (DHFC) for brake application" was invented by Abdul-Hafiz Afaneh (Dearborn, Mich.), Francesco Mancina (Dearborn, Mich.) and Abed Hasheminasab (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described for a durable high friction coating (DHFC), which may be manufactured by mixing a binder, a filler, and one or more additives in liquid form, loading the liquid mixture onto a coil material (metal substrate) and curing for subsequent cutting and/or stamping. The metal substrate with cured DHFC layer(s)...