ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,142, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAE Technologies Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).
"Materials and configurations for protection of objective materials" was invented by Daniel Marshall (Chandler, Ariz.), Anatoly Muchnikov (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Sergey Vdovichev (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passivation regions and device configurations are described herein. The passivation regions can be configured to seal against diffusion of an objective material from an underlying region into and/or through the passivation region. The passivation regions can also be configured to seal against diffusion of an exter...