US Patent Issued to OERLIKON METCO (US) on Dec. 16 for "Material for thin, smooth, and high-velocity flame sprayed coatings with increased deposition efficiency" (American, Finnish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,683, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OERLIKON METCO (US) INC. (Westbury, N.Y.).

"Material for thin, smooth, and high-velocity flame sprayed coatings with increased deposition efficiency" was invented by Jonathan Gutleber (Northport, N.Y.), Ville Hermanni Eronen (Jyvaskyla, Finland) and Guido Reisel (Bad Liebenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal spray material feedstock is provided for "flash-carbide" coatings. Flash carbide coatings are thin, dense, and smooth thermal spray coatings that self-activate the substrate. Flash-carbide coatings form and peen the coating to impart compressive stress for good adhesion ...