ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,148, issued on June 24, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).
"Method for making uniform porous surface layer on garnet thin film" was invented by Michael Edward Badding (Campbell, N.Y.), Yinghong Chen (Painted Post, N.Y.), Aaron David DeGeorge (Painted Post, N.Y.) and Zhen Song (Painted Post, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid garnet composition includes a bulk composition having a lithium garnet; and a surface composition having a protonated garnet on at least a portion of the exterior surface of the lithium garnet, such that the protonated garnet is uniformly disposed over the at least a portion of the exterior su...