US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 31 for "Mixed metal dodecaborides and uses thereof" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,011, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Mixed metal dodecaborides and uses thereof" was invented by Richard Barry Kaner (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Georgiy Akopov (Greenwood, S.C.), Michael Tyrone Yeung (Los Angeles), Christopher Lawrence Turner (Lancaster, Calif.), Zachary C. Sobell (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Cheng-Wei Lin (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are compounds, methods, tools, and abrasive materials comprising mixed transition metal dodecaborides."

The patent was filed on Sept. 17, 2021, under Application N...