ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,299, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Betavoltaic battery and method for manufacturing betavoltaic battery" was invented by Dong Seok Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Young Jun Yoon (Daegu, South Korea) and Jae Sang Lee (Daegu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a betavoltaic battery comprising: a substrate; an intrinsic semiconductor unit disposed on the substrate; an N-type semiconductor unit and a P-type semiconductor unit that are disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the intrinsic semiconductor unit and arranged alternately...