ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,939, issued on May 20, was assigned to LISI AEROSPACE (Paris) and HI-SHEAR Corp. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Methods for coating and components having coatings for electrical conductivity" was invented by Haikhanh Pham (Torrance, Calif.), Laurent Bourges (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Johan Stephan (Houilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal component made of a base metal and a coating system thereon is characterized in that the coating system comprises a conductive layer on the base metal and a resin-based layer including conductive pigments on the conductive layer. The conductive pigments form electrically conductive 3D-ne...