ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,231, issued on May 20, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Jinju-si, South Korea).

"Method for controlling surface characteristics and thickness of multilayer transition metal dichalcogenide thin film" was invented by Jun Hong Park (Jinju-si, South Korea) and Chang Hwan Oh (Jeollanam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment relates to a method for controlling the surface characteristics and thickness of a multilayer transition metal dichalcogenide thin film. By forming an amorphous transition metal oxide thin film on a multilayer transition metal dichalcogenide ...