US Patent Issued to Garrett Transportation I on Sept. 2 for "Wheels having a bi-layered coating including a hard coating layer and methods for making the same" (French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,867, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Wheels having a bi-layered coating including a hard coating layer and methods for making the same" was invented by Philippe Renaud (Sanchey, France) and Palaniappa Murukesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel includes a hub portion configured to rotate about a rotational axis. A plurality of blades extends radially outward from the hub portion. Each blade of the plurality of blades includes a leading edge and a trailing edge. The hub portion and the plurality of blades include a substrate metal that includes aluminum or an...