ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,965, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).
"High-energy laser surface processing for industrial column packing" was invented by Dakota Even (Kansas City, Mo.) and Connor Daniel Pearson (Overland Park, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for industrial tower packing using a high-energy laser surface processing technique are disclosed. The system includes a tower, a high-energy laser, a plurality of packing materials, and micro-sized or nano-sized structures on a packing material. The high-energy laser surface processing technique creates microscale...