ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,923, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Method of joining and sealing a vanadium based membrane to a metallic connection section" was invented by David Michael Viano (Kenmore, Australia) and Michael David Dolan (Woodend, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to a method of joining and sealing a vanadium based membrane to a metallic connection section. The invention is particularly applicable to joining a tubular vanadium or vanadium alloy membrane to a stainless steel body and it will be convenient to hereinaft...