ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,825, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AIKAWA FIBER TECHNOLOGIES OY (Helsinki).

"Screen cylinder with bars configured to receive a wear resistant spray coating" was invented by Mathieu Hamelin (Candiac, Canada), Robert William Gooding (Montreal) and Benoit Martineau (Magog, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen cylinder includes a cylindrical screening media having an inflow side and an outflow side. The screening media is formed of a plurality of circumferentially spaced an axially extending wedgewire bars, which have an inflow surface facing the inflow side. The axially extending wedgewire bars have a profile shape optimi...