US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on April 22 for "Continuous laser nanoforming methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,448, issued on April 22, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Continuous laser nanoforming methods" was invented by Ramses Valentin Martinez (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Debkalpa Goswami (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of transferring a metallic film to a flexible substrate using a roll-to-roll nanoforming assembly include transferring the metallic film to a nanomold such that a metal layer of the metallic film contacts the nanomold and an ablative layer of the metallic film contacts a confinement layer during continuous motion of the metallic film relative to the confinement l...