US Patent Issued to LYTEN on Nov. 25 for "Homogenous, partially oxidized carbon and microwave-assisted methods of making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,730, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LYTEN INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Homogenous, partially oxidized carbon and microwave-assisted methods of making the same" was invented by Parth Kailas Patel (Newark, Calif.), Beomseok Kim (Hayward, Calif.), Lisseth Gavilan (San Carlos, Calif.) and Chiapu Chang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Partially oxidized carbonaceous materials characterized by substantially homogenous, partially oxygenated surfaces thereof are enabled via microwave-assisted methods that are simple and fast. The exemplary methods include combining carbonaceous material(s), at least one mild oxidizer, at lea...