US Patent Issued to CUPTRONIC TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 5 for "Method for surface treatment prior to metallization" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,671, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CUPTRONIC TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Limassol, Cyprus).

"Method for surface treatment prior to metallization" was invented by Sven Gothe (Bromma, Sweden) and Bjorn Atthoff (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for treating a surface comprising heating the object and the object with a solution comprising a thermal initiator and a polymerizable molecule, wherein the polymerizable molecule reacts with the surface and forms a covalent bond and optionally a covalently bound polymer on the surface of the object. Metal ions are bound to the surface to make the surface possible...