ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,629, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SOCIETE DES CERAMIQUES TECHNIQUES (Bazet, France), UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER TOULOUSE III (Toulouse, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (Paris).

"Method for producing a substoichiometric layer of titanium, vanadium, tungsten or molybdenum oxide" was invented by Aimee Savourey (Leguevinleguevin, France), Lionel Presmanes (Nailloux, France), Yohann Thimont (Escalquens, France) and Antoine Barnabe (Baziege, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing a substoichiometric oxygen layer from titanium, vanadium, tungsten or m...