ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,604, issued on July 28, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Preparing method of two-dimensional materials with controlled number of layers" was invented by Jaehyun Lee (Bucheon-si, South Korea) and Jiyun Moon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a preparing method of two-dimensional materials with a controlled number of layer including depositing a metal thin film on a surface of a bulk material; exfoliating a two-dimensional material from the surface of the bulk material together with the metal thin film; and transferri...