US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Dec. 16 for "Wear resistant component and process therefor" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,709, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Wear resistant component and process therefor" was invented by Paul Cummings (Sycamore, Ill.), Lei Chen (South Windsor, Conn.), Brodie Gross (Janesville, Wis.), Jordan Pugliese (Woodstock, Ill.) and Eric Karlen (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a wear-resistant component includes depositing an aluminum coating on a steel component to provide an aluminum-coated steel component, and subjecting the aluminum-coated steel component to a plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) process. The PEO process converts a surface por...