US Patent Issued to ArcelorMittal on Dec. 30 for "Method for the manufacture of a coated metallic substrate by laser metal deposition" (Spanish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,778, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Method for the manufacture of a coated metallic substrate by laser metal deposition" was invented by Marcos Perez Rodriguez (Cangas del Narcea Asturias, Spain), Alvaro Manjon Fernandez (Oviedo Asturias, Spain), Miguel Perez Piqueras (Elda Alicante, Spain), Jose Lopez Fresno (Villaviciosa Asturias, Spain) and Sivasambu Bohm (Godmanchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-coated metallic substrate wherein a bare metallic substrate having a reflectance higher or equal to 60% at all wavelengths between 0.5 and 5.0 micro metre is coated with a pre-coat...