ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,756, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).

"Method of manufacturing crystalline material from different materials" was invented by Michael Edward Rendall (Newbury, Great Britain) and Robert Ian Joseph Gruar (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a crystalline layer of material on a surface, the crystalline layer including lithium, at least one transition metal and at least one counter-ion. The method includes the following steps: generating a plasma using a remote plasma generator, plasma sputtering material from a first target including lithium ...