US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on Dec. 23 for "Articles including nanostructured surfaces and interpenetrating layers, and methods of making same" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,608, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Articles including nanostructured surfaces and interpenetrating layers, and methods of making same" was invented by Matthew H. Frey (Cottage Grove, Minn.), Ta-Hua Yu (Woodbury, Minn.), Moses M. David (Wells, Texas), Richard J. Pokorny (Maplewood, Minn.) and Jun Ma (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an article including an organic layer having a nanostructured first surface including nanofeatures defining nanorecesses and an opposing second surface; and a ceramic layer disposed on the nanostructured fir...