ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,174, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE NANOCIENCIA I NANOTECNOLOGIA (ICN2) (Bellaterra, Spain), INSTITUCIO CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANATS (Barcelona, Spain) and THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Reduced graphene oxide film comprising a stack of rGO layers and its applications" was invented by Jose Antonio Garrido Ariza (Sant Just Desvern, Spain), Damia Viana (Barcelona, Spain), Kostantinos Kostarelos (Barcelona, Spain), Christopher John Bullock (Manchester, Great Britain), Cyrill Bussy (Salford, Great Britain) and Steven Tremayne Walston (Glendale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...