ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,310, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ultra Conductive Copper Co. Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Method and system for coating a metal workpiece with graphene" was invented by Horst Jakob Adams (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating a metal workpiece with graphene includes exposing the metal workpiece to a carbon-containing precursor gas and a hydrogen gas in a processing chamber in a first phase, and to the carbon-containing precursor gas, the hydrogen gas and a first carrier gas in the processing chamber in a second phase after the first phase. A first flow rate of the carbon-containing precursor gas into the pro...