US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for depositing hard carbon layers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,141, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for depositing hard carbon layers" was invented by Bert Scheffel (Dresden, Germany), Matthias Tenbusch (Dresden, Germany) and Stefan Saager (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for depositing a carbon layer includes an arc discharge is formed between an electron source and an evaporation material by means of a first power supply device. The negative terminal of the first power supply device is connected in an electrically conducting manner to the electron sour...