ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,067, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Valeo North America (Troy, Mich.).
"Ceramic metallic coatings" was invented by Shivi Singh (Seymour, Ind.), Thomas Nolan (Seymour, Ind.) and Rosangela Loiudice (Seymour, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetron sputtering apparatus includes a first independent sputtering target power supply, a second independent sputtering target power supply, a process gas port, a reactive gas port, a vacuum chamber configured to house the first independent sputtering target power supply, the second independent sputtering target power supply, the process gas port, the reactive gas port, and a platform f...