US Patent Issued to Xtalic on July 22 for "Nanostructured palladium-based alloys and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,163, issued on July 22, was assigned to Xtalic Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Nanostructured palladium-based alloys and related methods" was invented by Robert D. Hilty (Walpole, Mass.), Evgeniya Freydina (Acton, Mass.) and Marina Kaufman (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles including a multi-layer electrical contact and methods for applying the contact to a substrate are described herein. The article may include a substrate on which the multi-layer electrical contact is formed. In some embodiments, the electrical contact includes multiple metallic layers."

The patent was filed on March 17, 2021, under Application...