ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,026, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Method for simultaneously forming alkali metal layers" was invented by Shaomao Xu (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Ming Wang (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Ryan Curtis Sekol (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.), Xiaowei Yu (Troy, Mich.), Erik Damon Huemiller (Troy, Mich.), Catherine Haslam (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jeffrey S. Sakamoto (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simultaneously forming alkali metal layers includes heating a laminate structure including a top layer, a bottom layer, and an alkali metal layer sandwiched between opposing f...