US Patent Issued to RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY IN SHENZHEN, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Manufacturing method for graphite slider arrays" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,107, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY IN SHENZHEN (Guangdong, China) and TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Manufacturing method for graphite slider arrays" was invented by Quanshui Zheng (Beijing), Haiyang Jiang (Beijing) and Kaiwen Tian (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a manufacturing method for graphite slider arrays in batches. In this method, a grain structures examination step is added to a process of manufacturing graphite slider arrays, and a subsequent etching step is controlled so that only one horizontal grain boundary exists inside the graphite mesas, ...