US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH on Sept. 16 for "Plasma based system for generating antimicrobial coating on flexible polymeric substrates and process thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,073, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH (Gandhinagar, India).

"Plasma based system for generating antimicrobial coating on flexible polymeric substrates and process thereof" was invented by Ramkrishna Rane (Gandhinagar, India), Akshay Vaid (Gandhinagar, India), Alphonsa Joseph (Gandhinagar, India) and N. I. Jamnapara (Gandhinagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical magnetron sputtering assembly for coating on a flexible polymeric substrates with an antimicrobial material, said assembly comprising a sputtering setup and a cylindrical magnetron assembly; said cylindrical magnetron assembl...