US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Feb. 18 for "Method for forming binder-free refractory carbide, nitride and boride coatings with a controlled porosity" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,854, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Method for forming binder-free refractory carbide, nitride and boride coatings with a controlled porosity" was invented by Michael Brupbacher (Catonsville, Md.), Dajie Zhang (Baltimore) and Dennis Nagle (Arnold, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods for formation of refractory carbide, nitride, and boride coatings without use of a binding agent. The present invention is directed to methods of creating refractory coatings with controlled porosity. Refractory coatings can be formed from refractory metal, metal ox...