US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on May 27 for "Method for selective deposition of diamond coatings" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,681, issued on May 27, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Method for selective deposition of diamond coatings" was invented by Olaf Dietrich (Erkelenz, Germany) and Dirk Breidt (Erkelenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a selective diamond-coated substrate, wherein the diamond-coated substrate includes: a substrate having surfaces including cemented carbide material, areas selected to be coated, and areas not selected to be coated; and one or more diamond coatings on the areas selected to be coated, the method including following steps in order: a first ma...