ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,209, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Fluorocarbon/palladium/magnesium-scandium hydrogen-chromic film and preparation method thereof" was invented by Juan Chen (Shanghai), Haolan Fang (Shanghai), Liming Peng (Shanghai), Junjia Liu (Shanghai), Wei Shen (Shanghai), Tingyan Wang (Shanghai), Yan Chen (Shanghai) and Wenjiang Ding (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorocarbon/palladium/magnesium-scandium hydrogen-chromic film and a preparation method thereof are provided. The film includes a magnesium-scandium composite film layer, a palladium catalytic layer, and a fluorocarbon film...