ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,643, issued on March 25, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).
"Laser shock peening apparatus" was invented by Tyler T. Berger (Johnstown, Ohio), Devin R. Hilty (Westerville, Ohio), Mark D. Bloomberg (Columbus, Ohio), Gary Grossenbacher (Dublin, Ohio) and Jeff L Dulaney (Dublin, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing a laser peening application on a workpiece. A purge system is included with the system to provide a compartment housing combustion sources with compressed air so that the compartment has an increased air pressure. Also, a method of operating the system in which power is provided to the syste...