ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,658, issued on June 9, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method of manufacturing silicon nano-powders and manufacturing equipment implementing such method" was invented by Chung-Wen Lan (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing silicon nano-powders and a manufacturing equipment implementing such method. The method according to the invention utilizes a plurality of aluminum powders to react with a silicon tetrahalide into a plurality of silicon nano-powders and an aluminum trihalide to obtain the silicon nano-powders."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Applica...