US Patent Issued to LYTEN on Sept. 9 for "Tuning porous surface coatings using a plasma spray torch" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,504, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LYTEN INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tuning porous surface coatings using a plasma spray torch" was invented by Michael Stowell (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bruce Lanning (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided to create porous surface coatings. In use, a surface material includes synthesized carbon-containing composite materials based on metallic particles and carbon particles, where the synthesized carbon-containing composite materials comprise a porosity characteristic, and satisfy at least one of: a heat transfer characteristic, a resistance to corrosion cha...