US Patent Issued to Corning on March 11 for "Extrusion component having lubricious coating and method of extruding abrasive material" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,367, issued on March 11, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Extrusion component having lubricious coating and method of extruding abrasive material" was invented by Benedict Yorke Johnson (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Angela Marie Vaughn (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of increasing the lubricity of an extrusion component, the method comprising: functionalizing a surface of a wall of an extrusion body with PDA material to form a PDA treated surface; coating the PDA treated surface with a lubricious material; and heat treating the wall of the extrusion body for a time and a temperature sufficient to cause ...