ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,532, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alpha Assembly Solutions Inc. (Waterbury, Conn.) and MacDermid Autotype Ltd. (Wantage, Great Britain).

"Graphene enhanced and engineered materials for membrane touch switch and other flexible electronic structures" was invented by Nirmalya Kumar Chaki (Karnataka, India), Chetan Pravinchandra Shah (Karnataka, India), Barun Das (Karnataka, India), Supriya Devarajan (Karnataka, India), Siuli Sarkar (Karnataka, India), Rahul Raut (Sayreville, N.J.), Bawa Singh (Marlton, N.J.), Anubhav Rustogi (Edison, N.J.), Anna Jane Harris (Wantage, Great Britain), Keith Paul Parsons (Swindon, Great Britain) and Jeffrey William Braham (Newbury, Great Britain)....