Patents by Inventor Oliver Steinbock

Oliver Steinbock has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Structure and method for terminating underfilm corrosion
    Publication number: 20100178426
    Abstract: A new structure and method for terminating underfilm corrosion. The method utilizes patterned coatings on metal surfaces creating spatial variations of coating thickness or composition. The resulting structure, or paths of structural variation in the coating, directs the path of filiform growth and promotes entrapment, thereby limiting filiform growth and causing self-annihilation. In the preferred embodiment a stamp is used to impose the desired “paths” of structural variation in the painted coating while the coating is wet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Oliver Steinbock, Stephanie D. Thouvenel-Romans
  • Structure for terminating underfilm corrosion
    Publication number: 20070065645
    Abstract: A new structure and method for terminating underfilm corrosion. The method utilizes patterned coatings on metal surfaces creating spatial variations of coating thickness or composition. The resulting structure, or paths of structural variation in the coating, directs the path of filiform growth and promotes entrapment, thereby limiting filiform growth and causing self-annihilation. In the preferred embodiment a stamp is used to impose the desired “paths” of structural variation in the painted coating while the coating is wet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Oliver Steinbock, Stephanie Thouvenel-Romans