US Patent Issued to Eckart on Sept. 15 for "Plate-like PVD aluminum pigment with a protective encapsulation and method for manufacturing a plate-like PVD aluminium pigment with a protective encapsulation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,576, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Eckart GmbH (Hartenstein, Germany).

"Plate-like PVD aluminum pigment with a protective encapsulation and method for manufacturing a plate-like PVD aluminium pigment with a protective encapsulation" was invented by Oliver Bedford (Hartenstein, Germany), Frank Hippmann (Hartenstein, Germany), Johannes Zitzmann (Hartenstein, Germany) and Robert Maul (Hartenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a plate-like PVD aluminum pigment with a protective encapsulation, wherein said protective encapsulation comprises a) a continuous encapsulating silicon oxide containin...