ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,772, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Shandong, China), TIANRUN INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and SHANDONG TIANRUN ZHONGCHENG ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Method for increasing wear resistance of surface of crankshaft using ceramic coating" was invented by Jun Sun (Shandong, China), Jianchen Cong (Shandong, China), Yongming Guo (Shandong, China), Shibo Shao (Shandong, China), Yangfan Zhou (Shandong, China) and Peixiang Ni (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for increasing wear resistance of a surface of a crankshaf...