US Patent Issued to Motherson Innovations on March 17 for "Decorative coating excluding a base hard-coat" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,652, issued on March 17, was assigned to Motherson Innovations Co. Ltd. (London).

"Decorative coating excluding a base hard-coat" was invented by Scott Edwards (Lonsdale, Australia), Simon David Field (Lonsdale, Australia) and Bastian Stoehr (Lonsdale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure refers to a method for producing a coated plastic article, the method comprising: nnnnn. providing a plastic substrate having at least a first and second surface; ooooo. depositing on the plastic substrate a decorative coating comprising a metal or metal alloy layer, using physical vapor deposition; and ppppp. applying a protecti...