US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on March 17 for "Arc-beam position monitoring and position control in PICVD coating systems" (Liechtensteiner Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,671, issued on March 17, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Arc-beam position monitoring and position control in PICVD coating systems" was invented by Othmar Zuger (Triesen, Liechtenstein).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to stabilize position and shape of a plasma beam established between a cathode and an anode, where an electrical field is established between the cathode and the anode and where the shortest electrical field line between the cathode and the anode defines a reference line, wherein at least one oriented electromagnetic coil is provided and the at least one orien...