Illinois Tool Works, Glenview, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,353,657) developed by eight co-inventors for a “partially coated fastener assembly and method for coating.” The co-inventors are Geronimo E. Lat, Ivanhoe, Ill., Daniel P. McDonald, Palatine, Ill., Henry W. Schniedermeier, Glenview, Ill., Paul L. Hicks, Judsonia, Alaska, Harold D. Gray, Augusta, Alaska, Donald E. Bergstrom, Lake Villa, Ill., Guenther Kram, Bartlett, Ill., and Garry F. Tupek, Naperville, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. (…)
