US Patent Issued to FCA on Oct. 21 for "Thermal sprayed engine block remanufacturing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,492, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FCA LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Thermal sprayed engine block remanufacturing" was invented by Bryce W Silvey (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Martin S Kramer (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of remanufacturing an engine block includes providing an engine block having at least one cylinder bore with a bore interior surface having a thermal spray coating deposited thereon, determining at least a portion of the thermal spray coating is out of specification, performing a laser texture ablation (LTA) process on the thermal spray coating to remove at least a portion of the therma...