US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Oct. 7 for "Electrically gated nanostructure devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,763, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Electrically gated nanostructure devices" was invented by Eric Meshot (Livermore, Calif.) and Steven Buchsbaum (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gated nanostructure device, which includes a thick film comprising a conducting nanoporous material between a source electrode and a drain electrode; and a gate electrode that modulates an electric current through the conducting nanoporous material between the source electrode and the drain electrode throughout a thickness of the thick film. The conducting nanopo...