US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on May 20 for "Metal nitride thin film and methods of preparation thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,272, issued on May 20, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Metal nitride thin film and methods of preparation thereof" was invented by Khan Alam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Baseer Haider (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khalil A. Ziq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bakhtiar Ul Haq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a chromium nitride (CrN) thin film is provided. The method includes reactive radio frequency magnetron sputtering chromium onto a substrate in the presence of a gaseous mixture including nitrogen and argon to form the CrN thin film, wh...