US Patent Issued to VALAURUM on May 5 for "Method of manufacture of precious metal laminate" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,135, issued on May 5, was assigned to VALAURUM INC. (Portland, Ore.).

"Method of manufacture of precious metal laminate" was invented by Adam Trexler (Portland, Ore.), Laurie Johansen (Grants Pass, Ore.) and Paul Diffendaffer (Grants Pass, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precious metallic laminate may include a first transparent substrate, a transparent transition layer deposited on the first transparent substrate, and a metallic layer deposited on the transparent transition layer. The metallic layer may include a precious metal. The laminate may include a second transparent substrate covering the metallic layer."

The patent was...