US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on July 14 for "Electric contact having a multilayered coating structure" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,312, issued on July 14, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Electric contact having a multilayered coating structure" was invented by Helge Schmidt (Speyer, Germany), Isabell Buresch (Woert, Germany), Erika Crandall (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Claus Clemens Borhauer (Dinkelsbuehl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric contact includes a multilayered coating structure. The multilayered coating structure includes an intermediate layer and a top layer arranged on top of the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes Bi3Ni and the top layer includes a plurality of free bismuth grains." ...