ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,810, issued on July 29, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing graphene-coated object, negative electrode of secondary battery including graphene-coated object, and secondary battery including the negative electrode" was invented by Teppei Oguni (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Osada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiko Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To form graphene to a practically even thickness on an object having an uneven surface or a complex surface, in particular, an object having a surface with a three-dimensional structure due to complex uneve...