ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,856, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Army Academy of Armored Forces (Beijing).

"Small-size axial powder feeding inner hole plasma spraying gun" was invented by Ming Liu (Beijing), Haidou Wang (Beijing), Guozheng Ma (Beijing), Zhiguo Xing (Beijing), Yanfei Huang (Beijing), Weiling Guo (Beijing), Xinyuan Zhou (Beijing), Lihong Dong (Beijing), Yuelan Di (Beijing) and Dongyu He (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A small-size axial powder feeding inner hole plasma spraying gun comprises a nozzle with one end fixed on one side of a front gun body through a nozzle gland the other end extending to the other side of the front gun body...