ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,895, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KopMan LLC (Refugio, Texas).

"Method and system for treating equipment surface" was invented by Clayton Dale Wernli (Refugio, Texas) and Joshua Lee Kea (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for cleaning, preparing, and treating a new or used equipment surface with surface property modifiers. The method may include a cleaning procedure using clean water, a preparation of substrate to verify all areas of the substrate are clean and dry, a chemical preparation of the surface of the substrate by using a 1st alkaline preparation chemical and 2nd neutralizer preparation chem...