ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,015, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Continuous manufacture of graphenic compounds" was invented by Yong Lak Joo (Ithaca, N.Y.), Mohammed Alamer (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Brian Williams (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are high throughput continuous or semi-continuous reactors and processes for manufacturing graphenic materials, such as graphene. Such processes are suitable for manufacturing graphenic materials at rates that are up to hundreds of times faster than conventional techniques, and have little batch-to-batch variation. Also provided herein are graphenic compositio...