US Patent Issued to WE53UK on Dec. 16 for "Sub-critical nucleation process for making stable clusters of atoms having subcritical size" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,686, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to WE53UK Ltd. (London).

"Sub-critical nucleation process for making stable clusters of atoms having subcritical size" was invented by Sergey Gurevich (London), Vladimir Kozhevin (London), Denis Yavsin (London), Alexei Platonov (London), Alexander Atrashchenko (London) and Michael Kohl (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making stable clusters of atoms that are of subcritical size, in which rapid expansion and rapid cooling of a vapor cloud takes place in which the vapor conditions or parameters are controlled so that multiple stable clusters, each with a size less than the critical...