ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,990, issued on April 14, was assigned to Addionics IL Ltd (Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel).

"Liquid cold welding methods and apparatus" was invented by Vladimir Yufit (London), Le Sheng Nicholas Yiu (London), Belen Bello Rodriguez (London), Farid Tariq (London), Moshiel Biton (Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel) and Nir Halup (Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application discloses a method of liquid cold welding (LCW) including: (a) engaging two or more porous conductive substrate layers between perforated non-conductive frames so that the substrate layers contact one another; (b) immersing the substrate layers in an electrolyt...