US Patent Issued to Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy on Dec. 23 for "Corrosion and wear resistant overlay, method for forming corrosion and wear resistant overlay, and corrosion and wear resistant valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,727, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd. (Hitachi, Japan).

"Corrosion and wear resistant overlay, method for forming corrosion and wear resistant overlay, and corrosion and wear resistant valve" was invented by Sei Hirano (Ibaraki, Japan), Yoshihisa Kiyotoki (Ibaraki, Japan), Hajime Miyata (Ibaraki, Japan), Hirotsugu Kawanaka (Tokyo), Shinji Matsushita (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Shiratori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intended is to improve the corrosion resistance of an overlay used in a nuclear power plant, and to reduce dissolution of cobalt from an overlay. The corrosion and wear resistant overlay 7...