ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,507, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Solvated metal particle-coating system and method" was invented by Steven F. Son (West Lafayette, Ind.), Caleb Nathaniel Harper (Omaha, Neb.), Ryan Tolman Merrell (West Lafayette, Ind.), Andrew Ryan Noel (Granbury, Texas) and Dhruval Natubhai Patel (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solvated metal particle-coating system includes a metal additive and a polar outer-sphere electron transferring solvent. The metal additive is solvated in the polar outer-sphere electron transferring solvent. The polar outer-sphere electron tr...