ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,452, issued on March 18, was assigned to Forge Nano Inc. (Thornton, Colo.).

"Coatings on particles of high energy materials and methods of forming same" was invented by Arrelaine Dameron (Boulder, Colo.), Ryon Tracy (Westminster, Colo.), Jessica Burger (Thornton, Colo.), Chris Gump (Louisville, Colo.) and Andrew Broerman (Frederick, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of coatings on high-energy materials, devices or products that comprise the coated high-energy materials, functional coating materials and methods for producing and using the same. In particular, the present invention relates...