US Patent Issued to Oerlikon Surface Solutions, Pfaffikon on June 17 for "Coated forming tools with enhanced performance and increased service life" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,397, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Coated forming tools with enhanced performance and increased service life" was invented by Juergen Crummenauer (Offweiler, Germany) and Robin Sedlag (Langenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coated forming tool for processing of plastics materials or aluminum or aluminum alloy materials, comprising a substrate having a substrate surface, wherein the substrate surface is coated with a coating formed of one or more layers, wherein the coating comprises a Si-C-N-based layer having element composition in atomic percentage...