ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,555, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Diamond-like carbon coating for passive and active electronics" was invented by Erik Joseph Timpson (Lee's Summit, Mo.), Justin M. Schlitzer (Stillwell, Kan.), Thomas Matthew Selter (Blue Springs, Mo.) and Michael Walsh (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for building passive and active electronics with diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are provided herein. DLC may be layered upon substrates to form various components of electronic devices. Passive components such as resistors, capacitor...