US Patent Issued to Lyten on June 3 for "Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials using microwave reactors" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,008, issued on June 3, was assigned to Lyten Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials using microwave reactors" was invented by Michael W. Stowell (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bruce Lanning (Littleton, Colo.), Peter Todd Williams (San Carlos, Calif.) and Daniel Cook (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials by exciting a hydrocarbon gas with pulse microwaves to form hydrocarbon radicals in a hot first region of a microwave reactor. Graphene nanoplatelets are formed by the nucleation, growth, and assembly of the hydrocarbon radicals, and con...