US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Dec. 2 for "AIN-based hard material layer on bodies of metal, hard metal, cermet or ceramics, and method for the production thereof" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,568, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"AIN-based hard material layer on bodies of metal, hard metal, cermet or ceramics, and method for the production thereof" was invented by Mandy Hohn (Freital / OT Pesterwitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of materials engineering and relates to an AlN-based hard material layer on bodies of metal, hard metal, cermet or ceramics and to a method for the production thereof. The aim of the invention is to provide an AlN hard material layer which has improved hardness and wear resi...