US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on May 19 for "Arc-beam scanning for suppressing anode overgrowth in PICVD system" (Liechtensteiner Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,502, issued on May 19, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Arc-beam scanning for suppressing anode overgrowth in PICVD system" was invented by Othmar Zuger (Triesen, Liechtenstein).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for suppressing anode overgrowth in an arc-beam PICVD coating system, wherein during at least part of a coating process of the arc-beam PICVD coating system, the arc-beam is scanned over at least part of a surface of the anode. Further, the invention relates to an arc-beam PICVD coating system for coating parts."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2022, under Application No...