ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,810, issued on March 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Pretreatment method for pretreating components prior to electroplating" was invented by Christoph Roland Hoelzl (Kornwestheim, Germany), Martina Bubrin (Stuttgart, Germany), Milan Pilaski (Mannheim, Germany) and Tim Bergmann (Hemer, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pretreatment method for pretreating components, which are each formed of at least two different materials, prior to a coating process. The pretreatment method includes the steps: alkaline degreasing; chemical pickling in a first pickling medium; anodic pickling in a second pickling m...