ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,853, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TOYOKOH Co. Ltd. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Surface processing method and structure" was invented by Yoichi Honmo (Miyagi, Japan), Yasunori Kato (Miyagi, Japan), Tsuyoshi Saito (Miyagi, Japan), Masafumi Hosokawa (Miyagi, Japan), Kenjiro Momi (Shizuoka, Japan), Manabu Haraguchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuji Furumaki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Senda (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a surface treatment method of a metallic material having a protective layer formed thereon. A surface of the protective layer is scanned while irradiating the surface and the surface is scanned while m...