US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for finishing a surface of a component" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,074, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Method and apparatus for finishing a surface of a component" was invented by Swee Hock Yeo (Singapore) and Arun Prasanth Nagalingam (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for finishing a surface of a component. The method includes installing the component in an apparatus configured to deliver a flow of abrasives to the surface and to generate cavitation bubbles in a liquid contacting the surface using a cavitation generator that includes an ultrasonic generator configured to generate cavitation bubbles in the liquid contacting the surface by ul...