ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,807, issued on July 29, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Aluminum and aluminum alloy electroplated coatings" was invented by Vijaykumar S. Ijeri (Mumbai, India), Om Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Stephen P. Gaydos (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, a coated steel substrate comprises a single or multiple-layer electroplated aluminum coating over a steel substrate. The multiple-layer electroplated aluminum coating comprises one or more porous layers and one or more compact layers. The one or more porous layers comprise a material selected from a group consisting of aluminum and aluminum a...