ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,527, issued on July 1, was assigned to MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Graphene functionalization method, apparatus, and functionalized graphene product" was invented by Christopher Russo (Swindon, Great Britain), Mathew Peet (Swindon, Great Britain), Katerina Naydenova (Swindon, Great Britain), Steve Scotcher (Swindon, Great Britain), Chris Palmer (Swindon, Great Britain) and David Cattermole (Swindon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of functionalizing graphene on a substrate, the method comprising the step of: exposing a substrat...