US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Oct. 21 for "Induced circuitry within a hard diamond-like and carbon-rich layer having sensing abilities" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,006, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Induced circuitry within a hard diamond-like and carbon-rich layer having sensing abilities" was invented by Alireza Zolfaghari (Sugar Land, Texas) and Manuel Marya (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a substrate and a coating deposited onto a surface of the substrate. The coating includes a carbon rich layer deposited on the substrate. The carbon rich layer is also characterized by a first carbon content including sp2 carbon and sp3 carbon. Further, the carbon rich layer includes one or more treated carbon r...