ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,773, issued on July 29, was assigned to LYTEN INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Carbon disposed at interstitial sites of a polymer matrix" was invented by Bryce H. Anzelmo (Parsippany, N.J.), Michael Stowell (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Jacobson (Champaign, Ill.), Lauren Sienko (Champaign, Ill.) and Bruce Lanning (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventive techniques for forming unique compositions of matter are disclosed, as well as various advantageous physical characteristics, and associated properties of the resultant materials. In particular, particles comprising polymer matrices are characterized by having carbon disposed...