US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 2 for "Method for forming a chromium nitride/oxide film" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,578, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for forming a chromium nitride/oxide film" was invented by Khan Alam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Baseer Haider (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khalil A. Ziq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bakhtiar Ui Haq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a chromium nitride (CrN) thin film is provided. The method includes reactive radio frequency magnetron sputtering chromium onto a substrate in the presence of a gaseous mixture including nitrogen and argon to form the CrN thin film, where a rat...