US Patent Issued to Atotech Deutschland on Jan. 13 for "Electrode and apparatus for electrolytically treating a workpiece, assembly for forming a cell of the apparatus and method and computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,942, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Electrode and apparatus for electrolytically treating a workpiece, assembly for forming a cell of the apparatus and method and computer program" was invented by Henry Kunze (Berlin), Ferdinand Wiener (Berlin) and Britta Scheller (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode for an apparatus (1) for electrolytically treating a workpiece (3), the apparatus (1) being of a type arranged to convey the workpiece (3) with a surface to be treated past and directed towards a surface of the electrode, is divided into segments (23a-e) at at least this sur...