US Patent Issued to Colorado School of Mines on Feb. 3 for "Modified hot-dip galvanize coatings with low liquidus temperature, methods of making and using the same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,383, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.).

"Modified hot-dip galvanize coatings with low liquidus temperature, methods of making and using the same" was invented by John Speer (Littleton, Colo.) and Lijia Zhao (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallic material with a first microstructure is coated in a bath with a coating to form a coated metallic material. The coating has a liquidus temperature and the bath has an operating temperature that is higher than the liquidus temperature. The first microstructure of the metallic material is altered by the application of the coating to an a...