US Patent Issued to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS, PFAFFIKON on Oct. 27 for "Coating system for plastic processing applications" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,514, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Coating system for plastic processing applications" was invented by Anders Olof Eriksson (Chur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coating exhibits good corrosion resistance and good abrasion resistance. The multilayer coating includes layers A and layers B deposited forming a sequence of the type.. A/B/A/B/A.., with the layers A being CrN-based layers or CrN layers and the layers B being CrON-based layers or CrON layers. The multilayer coating exhibits a modulated ratio of the thicknesses of the A layers a...