ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,026, issued on June 3, was assigned to Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Method for producing coating with colored surface" was invented by Sven Matthias Twardy (Mainz, Germany), Jens Eggemann (Bad Kreuznach, Germany), Erik Albert (Ingelheim, Germany), Christian Becker (Bingen, Germany) and Denis Kurapov (Walenstadt, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing coated substrate bodies, wherein a plurality of substrate bodies comprising surfaces to be coated are provided with a colored coating surface, the method comprising following steps: providin...