US Patent Issued to GROHE on May 27 for "Body of a sanitary fitting having an anti-corrosion layer and a method for manufacturing such a body" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,208, issued on May 27, was assigned to GROHE AG (Hemer, Germany).

"Body of a sanitary fitting having an anti-corrosion layer and a method for manufacturing such a body" was invented by Torsten Meier (Neuss, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a body for a sanitary fitting that involves the following steps: provision of the body, wherein the body contains at least partially a zinc alloy and has at least one area for guiding a liquid; and coating the at least one area using an anti-corrosion coating, wherein the anti-corrosion coating is at least partially formed of a polymeric material."

The patent was f...