US Patent Issued to Tesla on May 20 for "Coating system and method for e-coating and degasification of e-coat fluid during e-coat" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,308, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Coating system and method for e-coating and degasification of e-coat fluid during e-coat" was invented by Gunjan Agarwal (Mountain View, Calif.), Sundaresan Avudaiappan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christopher Lillywhite (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating system includes an electrocoat (e-coat) bath having an e-coat fluid with a first amount of dissolved gases, a plurality of ultrasonic transducers mounted on at least two sides of the e-coat bath, a carrier frame and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to control a trajectory o...