ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,784, issued on May 6, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Corrosion protection using metallic coating" was invented by Tahany El-Wardany (Vernon, Conn.), Kenneth D. Smith (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Tianli Zhu (Glastonbury, Conn.), Weilong Zhang (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Sergey Mironets (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a metallic coating a workpiece is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a sacrificial deposition rod formed of a first material, receiving a workpiece of a second material, forming a coating of the first material from the sacrificial deposition rod onto the workpiec...