ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,044, issued on June 10, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"Method for protecting air-sensitive or evaporation-sensitive objects" was invented by Jean Christophe Gabriel (Quaix-en-Chartreuse, France), Monika Spano (Charavines, France) and Fatima-Ezzahra Hami (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depositing a film on a substrate, which includes the steps of forming a film using a liquid composition that includes a neutral surfactant and a charged lamellar compound, placing the film in contact with the substrate and depositing the film on substrate. Also, a pr...