ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,276, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAFT (Levallois-perret, France).
"Method for laser treatment of a lithium surface" was invented by Philippe Borel (Blanquefort, France), Maeva Gazziero (Bruges, France), Delphin Levasseur (Bordeaux, France), Julien Breger (Bordeaux, France), Ekaterina Pavlenko (Puteaux, France), Olivier Huchet (Latresne, France) and Sylvie Herreyre (Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a surface of a strip or film, the strip or film being made of lithium or a lithium-based alloy, the method comprising a step of radiating at least one portion of the surface of the stri...