ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,967, issued on March 24, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.) and UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Multi-cationic aluminate spinels" was invented by Christopher Ryan Riley (Albuquerque, N.M.), Abhaya Datye (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Andrew De La Riva (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to both stoichiometric and sub-stoichiometric high entropy aluminate spinels as a novel high entropy oxide (HEO) crystal phase. Previously reported HEOs are overwhelmingly stoichiometric structures containing a single cationic site and...