US Patent Issued to ROLIC TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 15 for "Method for creating surface microstructures" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,723, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ROLIC TECHNOLOGIES AG (Allschwil, Switzerland).

"Method for creating surface microstructures" was invented by Martin Urbanski (Bruchsal, Germany) and Hans Leonhard Prechtel (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a desired surface microstructure includes first providing an original microstructured surface having a structure depth between 10 nm and 100 micro metre. The topography of this original microstructure is digitally acquired using a 3D surface profilometer and processed into structure-describing data suitable for a writing tool. The processed data may i...