US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Jan. 28 for "Compositions and methods for forming damage-resistant multilayered hydrogen permeation barriers" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,315, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for forming damage-resistant multilayered hydrogen permeation barriers" was invented by Ju Li (Weston, Mass.), Bilge Yildiz (Cambridge, Mass.), Cemal Cem Tasan (Cambridge, Mass.), Jinwoo Kim (Revere, Mass.), Xiahui Yao (San Jose, Calif.), Vrindaa Somjit (Cambridge, Mass.) and So Yeon Kim (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and processes for forming barrier coatings to prevent hydrogen embrittlement of an underlying material are disclosed. The coating can be made up of composite structur...