US Patent Issued to The Gillette on June 16 for "Coatings for a razor blade" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,347, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Gillette Co. LLC (Boston).

"Coatings for a razor blade" was invented by Kenneth James Skrobis (Maynard, Mass.), William Owen Jolley (Spencer, Mass.), John Lawrence Maziarz (Framingham, Mass.), Bin Shen (Shanghai), Ronald Richard Duff Jr. (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Joe David Lussier (Milton, Mass.), Oliver Heinz Claus (Walpole, Mass.) and Joseph Allan DePuydt (Salem, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A razor blade including: a substrate having a tip portion including a tip region, a blade body including a base, and first and second outer sides disposed opposite a split line of the substrate, in ...