US Patent Issued to MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Oerlikon Surface Solutions, Pfaffikon on Dec. 30 for "Coated tool" (Japanese, Swiss, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,663, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MOLDINO Tool Engineering Ltd. (Tokyo) and Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Coated tool" was invented by Tomoya Sasaki (Yasu, Japan), Kazuyuki Kubota (Narita, Japan), Kumar Yalamanchili (Sargans, Switzerland), Denis Kurapov (Walenstadt, Switzerland) and Wolfgang Kalss (Feldkirch, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated tool of the present invention includes a base material; and a hard coating film on the base material. The hard coating film is a nitride or carbonitride which contains aluminum (Al) of 65 atomic % or more and 90 atomic % or less and titan...