US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Nov. 11 for "Graphene plasmon resonators" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,075, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Graphene plasmon resonators" was invented by Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minn.), In-Ho Lee (Minneapolis) and Tony Low (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a graphene plasmon resonator that includes a planar patterned layer having a collection of electrically conductive segments, and a collection of dielectric segments, each dielectric segment defined between a corresponding pair of the electrically conductive segments, a graphene layer substantially para...