US Patent Issued to Vapor Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Anti-microbial coating physical vapor deposition such as cathodic arc evaporation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,562, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Vapor Technologies Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

"Anti-microbial coating physical vapor deposition such as cathodic arc evaporation" was invented by Patrick Anthony Sullivan (Longmont, Colo.) and Bryce Randolph Anton (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioactive coated substrate includes a base substrate, a first interlayer disposed over the base substrate, an outermost bioactive layer disposed on the first interlayer, and a topcoat layer disposed on the outermost bioactive layer. Characteristically, a plurality of microscopic openings extending through the topcoat layer and the outermost...