ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,468, issued on May 27, was assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China) and SICHUAN FUTURE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY LLC (Shifang, China).
"Automated LSP process equipment system for aero-engine blade" was invented by Changhe Li (Qingdao, China), Zechen Zhang (Qingdao, China), Bo Liu (Qingdao, China), Shun Zhang (Qingdao, China), Binwei Wang (Qingdao, China), Jiazhi Yao (Qingdao, China), Ang Li (Qingdao, China), Wei Gao (Qingdao, China), Yu Zhang (Qingdao, China), Bingheng Lu (Qingdao, China), Yanbin Zhang (Qingdao, China) and Mingzheng Liu (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated laser shock peening (LSP...