ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,489, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FUELGEMS INC. (San Francisco).

"Additive for liquid fuels, fuel compositions based on the additive, and methods of manufacture" was invented by Ievgen Polunkin (Kiev, Ukraine), Jacek Bogdan Jasinski (San Francisco), Dmytro Vinnichenko (Kiev, Ukraine) and Kirill Gichunts (Kiev, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanostructure includes a plurality of substantially spherically curved carbon layers having diameters in a range of 1 nanometer to 1000 nanometers and a plurality of halogen atoms attached to an outer convex side of the carbon layers. A composition of matter includes a liquid fuel an...