US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Proceedes Georges Claude on Feb. 24 for "Molybdenum pentachloride conditioning and crystalline phase manipulation" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,859, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Proceedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Molybdenum pentachloride conditioning and crystalline phase manipulation" was invented by Feng Li (Branchburg, N.J.), Yumin Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Sameh Helmy (Fremont, Calif.), Peng Zhang (Branchburg, N.J.) and Jean-Marc Girard (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of conditioning MoCl5 comprises heating a container of MoCl5 to a temperature ranging from approximately 140deg C. to 190deg C. for a period ranging from approximately 2 hours to approximately 100 hours to produce a MoCl5-con...