ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,124, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wilsonart LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Method for coating stainless steel press plates and coated press plates produced thereby" was invented by Muyuan M. Ma (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating stainless steel press plates includes preparing the stainless steel press plate for coating and coating the stainless steel press plate with a diboride doped with 1%-5% by weight aluminum to produce a diboride-aluminum coating. The step of coating includes applying the diboride-aluminum coating to a stainless steel press plate using a magnetron sputter coating system."
The patent...