US Patent Issued to AGC GLASS EUROPE on April 22 for "Method of coating onto fabric substrates by means of plasma" (Belgian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,435, issued on April 22, was assigned to AGC GLASS EUROPE (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Method of coating onto fabric substrates by means of plasma" was invented by Hansjoerg Weis (Hoxter, Germany) and Jerome Jolibois (Gosselies, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a fluorinated polymer coating on a fabric substrate, including providing a first plasma source containing at least one pair of hollow-cathode plasma generating electrodes, injecting a first plasma generating gas in the at least one pair of hollow-cathode plasma generating electrodes, applying a first electrical power to the first plasma source, in...