ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,510, issued on July 8, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.) and THE INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC SCIENCES (Barcelona, Spain).

"Graphene doping by thermal poling" was invented by Miriam Marchena Martin-Frances (Barcelona, Spain), Prantik Mazumder (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Valerio Pruneri (Castelldefels, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a graphene device includes: providing a glass substrate with a blocking layer disposed thereon to form a stack; providing a first electrode and a second electrode; increasing the temperature of the stack to at least 100deg C.; applying an external electric field (VP) to the first electr...