ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,836, issued on June 10, was assigned to KLUEBER LUBRICATION MUENCHEN SE & Co. KG (Munich).
"Tribological system" was invented by Martin Schweigkofler (Friedberg, Germany), Balasubramaniam Vengudusamy (Munich), Stefan Seemeyer (Wolfratshausen, Germany) and Dirk Loderer (Gilching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tribological system, including a main body and a sandwich lubrication, wherein the sandwich lubrication includes a binder-free solid lubricant layer including a solid lubricant, and a lubricant layer including a lubricant. The binder-free solid lubricant layer and the lubricant layer are present as separate layers on t...