ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,309, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Atomic Machines Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).
"Stabilized liquid-solid electrical contact" was invented by Eric Meshot (Emeryville, Calif.), William Boettcher (Emeryville, Calif.), Gregory C. Ghahramani (Emeryville, Calif.) and James Stolken (Emeryville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact is provided that includes a first contact member formed of material containing tungsten, the first contact member having an exposed surface and a first pocket opening to the exposed surface, the first pocket having a circumscribing side wall and a bottom wall that define an interior of the first pock...