US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Oct. 28 for "Functionalized graphene, method for producing a functionalized graphene, and its use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,459, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Functionalized graphene, method for producing a functionalized graphene, and its use" was invented by Valeri Leich (Duisburg, Germany), Jonas Honig (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany), Julian Teichmann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Silvia Blank-Shim (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Stefan Schumann (Remscheid, Germany), Verena Breuers (Haltern am See, Germany) and Patrik Stenner (Hanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process can be used for the functionalization of graphene material by mixing graphene material with at least one silane. The functionalized gr...