US Patent Issued to Joint-Stock Company "TVEL" on June 10 for "Method of ion-plasma application of corrosion-resistant film coatings on articles made from zirconium alloys" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,907, issued on June 10, was assigned to Joint-Stock Co. "TVEL" (Moscow).

"Method of ion-plasma application of corrosion-resistant film coatings on articles made from zirconium alloys" was invented by Vladislav Konstantinovich Orlov (Moscow), Alexander Olegovich Titov (Moscow), Michail Yurjevich Kornienko (Moskovskaya oblast, Russia), Nikolay Nikolaevich Krasnobaev (Moscow), Alexander Alexandrovich Maslov (Moscow), Vladimir Vladimirovich Novikov (Moscow) and Denis Sergeevich Saenko (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ion-plasma application of corrosion-resistant film coatings on articles made from zirconium alloys inclu...