ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,727, issued on Nov. 25, 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: "There is disclosed a method of producing a heating structure, comprising the steps of: (a) using a first laser beam configured to irradiate an encapsulated, sub-surface region of a carbon pre-cursor material below a surface of the carbon pre-cursor material, parameters of the first laser beam being selected to create carbon foam in...