US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Aug. 25 for "Metal hydride nanoparticles" (Maryland, Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,821, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Metal hydride nanoparticles" was invented by Albert Epshteyn (Potomac, Md.), Zachary J. Huba (Oakland Park, Fla.) and Matthew Finn (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoparticle of a decomposition product of a transition metal aluminum hydride compound, a transition metal borohydride compound, or a transition metal gallium hydride compound. A process of: reacting a transition metal salt with an aluminum hydride compound, a borohydride compound, or a gallium hydride comp...