US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo, RIKEN TECHNOS on Nov. 4 for "Method for manipulating flake-like material and method for producing article containing flake-like material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,818, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo) and RIKEN TECHNOS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for manipulating flake-like material and method for producing article containing flake-like material" was invented by Tomoki Machida (Tokyo), Momoko Onodera (Tokyo) and Taketo Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manipulating a flake-like material, the method comprising: (2) a step of grounding a first probe of which a tip is covered with a first resin film on the flake-like material left still on a substrate, and pressing the first probe to pick up the flake-like material; (3) a step of grounding a s...