US Patent Issued to PLASMATERIA on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus and method for coating the inner surface of a hollow article" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,756, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PLASMATERIA GMBH (Vienna).

"Apparatus and method for coating the inner surface of a hollow article" was invented by Martin Jaros (Vienna) and Bernhard Kohlhauser (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus for forming a coating on and/or modifying the properties of the inner surface of a hollow article (1), wherein the apparatus comprises a plasma source (2), the plasma source (2) having an elongate shape and comprising a cathode (3) as well as a target (4), wherein the target (4) is a thermionic electron emission source, wherein the target (4) is connected to t...