ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,735, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.) and COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Polymeric agents and compositions for inhibiting corrosion" was invented by James Ivan Mardel (Acton, Australia), Ivan Stewart Cole (Acton, Australia), Paul Andrew White (Acton, Australia), Anthony Ewart Hughes (Acton, Australia), Tracey Anne Markley (Acton, Australia), Timothy Graham Harvey (Acton, Australia), Joseph Osborne (Seattle) and Erik Sapper (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to processes, compositions and agents for inhibiti...