ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,625, issued on July 22, was assigned to H QUEST VANGUARD INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Nanocarbon material and applications of nanocarbon material" was invented by George L. Skoptsov (Pittsburgh), Kurt W. Zeller (Pittsburgh), Aayush Mantri (Pittsburgh) and Vignesh Viswanathan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanocarbon material includes agglomerate nanostructures made of aggregates of: (i) graphene nanostructures having at least partially crumpled morphology, and (ii) clusters of at least one carbon material. The carbon material may have a graphitic structure. At least a portion of the graphitic structure may be at least partially ...