US Patent Issued to Simon Fraser University, National Research Council of Canada on March 24 for "Methods for self-assembling monolayers to mitigate hydrogen permeation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,015, issued on March 24, was assigned to Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada) and National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Methods for self-assembling monolayers to mitigate hydrogen permeation" was invented by Sami Khan (New Westminster, Canada), Md. Aminul Islam (Surrey, Canada) and Ishaan Aggarwal (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed methods provide for preparing a stable hydrophobic self-assembled monolayer (SAM) coating, that includes preparing a SAM solution by combining a SAM compound with an initial solvent and an additional solvent and mixing, in a sealed container, the SAM solut...