US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Aug. 12 for "Crystallographically-oriented metallic films with two-dimensional crystal layers" (District Of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,929, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Crystallographically-oriented metallic films with two-dimensional crystal layers" was invented by Jeremy T. Robinson (Washington), Jose J. Fonseca Vega (Alexandria, Va.) and Maxim K. Zalalutdinov (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystallographically-oriented metallic film with a two-dimensional crystal layer comprising a substrate, a metal film on the substrate, the two-dimensional crystal layer on the metal film on the substrate, and a tunable microstructure within...