US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on June 9 for "Molybdenum nitride based multilayer coating for wear and friction reduction" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,968, issued on June 9, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Molybdenum nitride based multilayer coating for wear and friction reduction" was invented by Timea Stelzig (Boppard, Germany), Astrid Gies (Flaesch, Switzerland) and Juergen Becker (Geisenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for the production of a Mo-N-based coating structure, including: providing a substrate to be coated and applying a hard material layer on the substrate, wherein the hard material layer includes at least one layer of Mo-N having a hexagonal crystal structure and at least one layer of Mo-N having...