ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,344, issued on June 17, was assigned to AlixLabs AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Formation of an array of nanostructures" was invented by Dmitry Suyatin (Lund, Sweden), Amin Karimi (Lund, Sweden), Reza Jafari Jam (Lund, Sweden), Yoana Ilarionova (Lund, Sweden), Asif Muhammad (Lund, Sweden) and Jonas Sundqvist (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an array of nanostructures is presented. The method comprising: providing a layer structure including an array of first sacrificial nanostructures arranged on a supporting layer structure comprising at least a first material layer and a substrate; selectively applying spacer ...