US Patent Issued to MOLECULAR PLASMA GROUP on Dec. 23 for "Method for altering adhesion properties of a surface by plasma coating" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,624, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MOLECULAR PLASMA GROUP S.A. (Foetz, Luxembourg).

"Method for altering adhesion properties of a surface by plasma coating" was invented by Gill Scheltjens (Boom, Belgium), Joanna Borek-Donten (Arlon, Belgium) and Regis Heyberger (Thionville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for altering adhesion properties of a surface of a substrate by a coating, comprising the steps of: a) ionizing a plasma gas at low temperature and at atmospheric pressure, thereby creating a plasma with a plasma temperature of at most 50deg C.; b) introducing a precursor into a plasma gas afterglow of the plasm...