US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on March 11 for "Silicon carbide nanoneedles and fabrication thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,155, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Silicon carbide nanoneedles and fabrication thereof" was invented by Clint D. Frye (Livermore, Calif.), Mihail Bora (Livermore, Calif.), Adam M. Conway (Livermore, Calif.), Devin Joseph Funaro (Livermore, Calif.), Paulius Vytautas Grivickas (Livermore, Calif.), David L. Hall (San Ramon, Calif.) and Lars F. Voss (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product includes an elongated carbon-containing pillar having a bottom and a tip opposite the bottom. The width of the pillar measured 1 nm below the tip is less than 700 ...