US Patent Issued to INTEGRATED GRAPHENE HOLDING on July 29 for "Laser-induced carbon nanostructures" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,325, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTEGRATED GRAPHENE HOLDING Ltd. (Stirling, Great Britain).

"Laser-induced carbon nanostructures" was invented by Marco Caffio (Stirling, Great Britain), Oliver Semple (Stirling, Great Britain) and Darren Cairns (Stirling, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a carbon nanostructure, such as a carbon foam material, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: (a) using a first laser beam to irradiate an encapsulated or sub-surface region of a carbon pre-cursor material below a surface of the material, to create carbon foam in that sub-surface region, and a d...