US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on Nov. 18 for "Wear and/or friction reduction by using molybdenum nitride based coatings" (Austrian, Liechtensteiner, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,628, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Wear and/or friction reduction by using molybdenum nitride based coatings" was invented by Johann Karner (Triesen, Liechtenstein), Volker Derflinger (Feldkirch, Austria) and Maximilian Erich Luichti (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component including a substrate surface coated with a coating including at least one MoN layer having a thickness not less than 40 nm. Between the substrate surface and the at least one MoN layer the component includes: i) a substrate surface hardened layer, which is a hardened, ni...