US Patent Issued to Oerlikon Surface Solutions, Pfaffikon on May 20 for "Method for producing a coating" (Liechtensteiner, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,270, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Method for producing a coating" was invented by Mathias Maier (Owingen, Germany) and Othmar Zueger (Triesen, Liechtenstein).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a coating for deposition to non-metallic surfaces comprises the steps of applying (120) a semiconductor material to a substrate to form a semiconductor material layer and simultaneously or subsequently applying (140) metallic material or additional semiconductor material. The metallic material or additional semiconductor material is introduced into the semic...