ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,719, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multilayer coating for interface cones" was invented by Jing Tang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Elizabeth Carr (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coating including an adhesion layer; and a protective coating is disclosed. The multilayer coating can be applied to a portion of at least one of a base and a tip of an interface cone. A method of making a coated interface cone is also disclosed."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2022, under Application No. 18/262,680.

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