ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,292, issued on May 12, was assigned to MOLDINO Tool Engineering Ltd. (Tokyo) and Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).
"Coated tool" was invented by Tomoya Sasaki (Yasu, Japan), Kazuyuki Kubota (Yasu, Japan), Kumar Yalamanchili (Sargans, Switzerland), Denis Kurapov (Walenstadt, Switzerland) and Wolfgang Kalss (Feldkirch, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated tool of the present invention includes a base material and a hard coating film on the base material. The hard coating film is a nitride or carbonitride containing aluminum (Al) of 65 atomic % or more 90 atomic % or less, titanium (Ti) of 10 a...